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Bernard Duhaime, Chair of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances at a press conference at UN Headquarters on 20 October 2017.
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Independent inquiry needed into suspected ‘enforced disappearance’ of Saudi journalist: UN rights office

9 October 2018
Human Rights

The “apparent enforced disappearance” of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was last seen reportedly visiting his country’s consulate in Istanbul last week, requires a full investigation involving both Turkey and Saudi Arabia, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.

A wall of photos at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the site of infamous Security Prison S-21, documents the Khmer Rouge's brutal treatment of detainees.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

A decade on, UN urges all Governments to endorse convention on enforced disappearance

17 February 2017
Marking the tenth anniversary of an historic treaty to keep people from suffering enforced disappearance or secret detentions, the United Nations today urged all Governments that have not done so to ratify it, as the world body honoured victims separated from their loved ones.
Dawn Lavell-Harvard.
UN Radio/D. Penn

Racism, sexism plague Canadian indigenous women

20 May 2016
General News

Canada’s decision to launch an inquiry into the disappearance and murder of hundreds of indigenous women over the past 30 years has been welcomed by an activist from the country.

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Olivier de Frouville, Chairperson of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin

New strategies needed to combat enforced disappearances, says UN expert group

19 July 2013
A panel of independent United Nations experts have called for new strategies to tackle enforced or involuntary disappearances and highlighted the impunity that prevails for this crime.
A mother tells her story about her son, one of the victims known as "desaparecidos" of the military government that ruled Argentina in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
UN Photo/E. Schneider (file photo)

On international day, UN experts highlight need to end enforced disappearances

30 August 2012
The practice of enforced disappearances in which citizens of a State are deliberately vanished to never be seen again is not only a heinous crime but an act that negates the very essence of humanity, a group of independent United Nations experts said today.
Credit: OHCHR
OHCHR

UN experts on enforced disappearances study over 200 cases during current session

13 July 2012
Independent United Nations human rights experts on enforced or involuntary disappearances reviewed more than 200 cases concerning over 30 countries during the session that ended today.
A mother tells her story about her son, one of the victims known as "desaparecidos" of the military government that ruled Argentina in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
UN Photo/E. Schneider (file photo)

All States must end ‘heinous crime’ of enforced disappearances, UN demands

30 August 2011
The United Nations today called on all States to end the “heinous crime” of enforced disappearances which has seen countless people vanish into secret prisons or worse, often never to be seen again, in cases of conflict and internal unrest.
Jeremy Sarkin, chairman of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

UN human rights experts to study more than 350 cases of enforced disappearances

4 July 2011
The United Nations human rights experts tasked with helping families determine what happened to their relatives who have disappeared will this week review more than 350 cases of enforced disappearances around the world.
Jeremy Sarkin, chairman of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

UN experts welcome entry into force of treaty on enforced disappearance

23 December 2010
A landmark treaty to deter enforced disappearances entered into force today with United Nations experts tasked with assisting families determine the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared urging States to ensure the eradication of the crime by bringing those responsible to justice.
Baltasar Garzón.

UN human rights experts voice concern about suspension of Spanish judge

25 May 2010
A group of United Nations human rights experts today expressed concern about the suspension of a high-profile Spanish judge who had been investigating allegations regarding tens of thousands of enforced disappearances during the country’s civil war and subsequent years