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contents:
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What is Enforced Disappearance?
What does the United Nations do about Enforced Disappearances?
What is the United Nations 1992 Declaration for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance?
What is the United Nations Convention For the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance?
From AFAD’s initial assessment, the following are some factors which contributed to the successful adoption/approval of the Convention in September 2005:
What does the recently approved Convention mainly state about the issue of disappearance?
Why is there a need for a Convention?
What will the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, to be established by the Convention, do?
What is the Convention’s importance to the Peoples of Asia?
Why is the ratification and entry into force of the Convention important?
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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Primer on the United Nations Convention
for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
Third Edition
(Prepared by the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances)
What does the United Nations do about Enforced Disappearances?
In 1978 after receiving many reports on cases all over the world, the UN General Assembly issued its first resolution ever on the phenomenon of enforced or involuntary disappearances. Finally in 1981, despite the opposition of many countries in Latin America and Asia still under military regimes, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) was established and continues to be operative up to the present. Its mandate is essentially of humanitarian nature as 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 power to condemn a State for human rights violations or to order serious and thorough investigations or to award any reparation. Since 1992, it also monitors the application by all countries of the 1992 Declaration which was approved that year by the UN.
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