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Jeremy Sarkin, chairman of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

UN experts urge greater support to bring global pact on disappearances into force

30 August 2010
The United Nations experts tasked with assisting families determine the fate or whereabouts of disappeared relatives is urging States to define enforced disappearances as a crime and to help bring the international treaty dealing with this scourge into force.
Jeremy Sarkin, chairman of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

UN human rights experts call on States to ratify treaty on enforced disappearances

25 June 2010
A United Nations human rights working group today urged Member States to back a global pact aimed at protecting people from enforced disappearances that is just two ratifications shy of the number needed to bring it into force.