Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances

	United Nations Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
contents: Download pdf cover 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)? ----------- INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF ALL PERSONS FROM ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE	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 Convention’s Importance to the Peoples of Asia? Asia, at present, lacks a regional legal instrument or procedural mechanism to protect, promote and uphold human rights, be it a Convention, a Commission or a Court. The effectivity of the ASEAN Human Rights Body which will soon be launched still remains to be proven amidst various skepticisms of its mandate. In comparison, Latin America has the Inter-American Human Rights System and the Inter-American Convention on Enforced Disappearances while Europe has several human rights instruments such as the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. As of the publication of this Primer, The UN is the only venue which the families of the disappeared in the Asian region can use. Moreover, at present, not a single country in Asia has a national law criminalizing enforced disappearances. Thus, the Convention, if adopted and ratified, will facilitate the enactment of national legislations criminalizing enforced disappearances and ensure the implementation of the provisions of the treaty. Moreover, in the recent reports of the UNGWEID, Asia is the continent which submitted the highest number of cases. The reported cases both occurred in the past and continue to happen at present. With the absence of national, regional and international mechanisms criminalizing enforced disappearances, we can never prevent enforced disappearances from happening in the Asian region and it is impossible to effectively combat impunity.
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