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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 does the United Nations (UN) do about
Enforced Disappearances?
In 1978 after receiving many reports on cases of enforced disappearance
perpetrated all over the world, the UN General Assembly issued its first
resolution ever on the phenomenon of enforced or involuntary
disappearances. In 1980, despite the opposition of many countries in Latin
America and Asia still under military regimes, the UNWGEID was established
and continues to be operative up to the present. Its mandate is
essentially of humanitarian nature, since it acts as a channel of
communication between the family of the victim and the government
concerned. As such, the Working Group lacks any binding power as well as
judicial competence and does not have the competence to condemn a State
for human rights violations, or to establish individual responsibility, or
to order serious and thorough investigations, or to award any measure of
reparation to victims of enforced disappearance. Since 1992, it also
monitors the implementation by all countries of the 1992 Declaration on
the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance which was
adopted on 18 December of the same year by the UN General Assembly.
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