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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 is the United Nations Convention For the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance?
The Convention is different from the 1992 Declaration as it is a legally binding instrument for the States who ratify it. Its text was approved on September 23,, 2005; was adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council on June 27, 2006; approved by the United Nations General Assembly on December 20, 2006 and signed by 57 States on February 7, 2007 in Paris, France. Since then, however, as of this writing, only few ratifications have been made and the Convention will enter into force only when it is ratified by 20 States.
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