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What is Enforced Disappearance?
What does the United Nations (UN) do about Enforced
Disappearances?
What is the 1992 UN Declaration for the Protection of
All Persons from Enforced Disappearance?
What is the UN Convention for the Protection of All
Persons from Enforced Disappearance?
What does the Convention mainly state about the issue
of enforced disappearance
Why is there a need for a Convention?
What will be the functions of the Committee on
Enforced Disappearances which is to be established by
the Convention?
What is the Convention’s Importance to the Peoples of
Asia?
Why is it important for States to ratify the
Convention
and to ensure its immediate entry into force?
What is the practical importance of the Convention for
the victims and their families?
How can we lobby governments to recognize the
importance of the instrument by signing and ratifying
the Convention?
What is the International Coalition Against Enforced
Disappearance (ICAED)?
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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF ALL
PERSONS FROM
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE
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Respect the Right NOT to be DISAPPEARED!
A Primer on the United Nations Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
What is the practical importance of the Convention
for the victims and their families?
A Convention is a a fundamental step in the struggle against impunity. It
would ensure indictment of the perpetrators and provide hope to the
survivors and the relatives of the victims. It would also establish a
clear set of effective preventive measures. In the meantime, organizations
of families of the disappeared shall avail themselves of existing
remedies, in particular:
• Keep sending communications to the UNWGEID. It is primarily important to
update the Working Group on any news. If there has already been a case
presented, it is of utmost importance to avoid the application of the
six-month rule, i.e. if the UNWGEID sends information to the source and
the source does not respond within six months, the UNWGEID will drop the
case;
• In case there are reprisals or threats, immediately inform the UNGWEID
and ask for its prompt intervention. It is important to periodically
update the Working Group once it has provided prompt intervention
measures, in order to establish a fruitful and continuing dialogue;
• Formulate general observations and allegations to the UNWGEID on the
compliance of local governments with their obligations under the
Declaration; and
• Submit communications to the HRC if the State is a Party to the ICCPR
and its First Optional Protocol.
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