Securing Safeguards for Human Rights

The act of disappearing people has long been identified only with the authoritarian and military dictatorships of Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s. When these countries overthrew their dictators and moved forward to a period of democracy, people thought that enforced disappearance has also been incarcerated in the pages of history or buried along with the oppressors who have died. What they fail to actually see is that disappearance is a global concern. It is not merely contained within the boundaries of the Latin American region. Thus, it may have already faced the courts of justice in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Guatemala, Peru, etc. But in other regions, particularly in Asia, enforced disappearance continues to freely wreak terror and havoc in the lives of many families.

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