Enforced disappearances: UN expert group examines over 450
cases from 37 countries
GENEVA (14 September 2015) – The United Nations Working
Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is reviewing this week more
than 450 cases of enforced disappearance from 37 countries, including recent
ones and updated information on previous cases.
During its 107th session, the expert body will exchange
information on these individual cases with State delegations, relatives of
those who have disappeared and civil society representatives.
The Group’s five independent experts will also discuss thematic
issues related to enforced disappearances, including the issue of enforced
disappearance and migration, which will be the focus of the Working Group’s
next thematic study.
During the session, the Working Group will also examine
allegations received regarding obstacles encountered in the implementation of
the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
The Working Group’s session will coincide with the first
week of the Human Rights Council’s 30th session, during which the Working Group
will present its annual report to the Council, as well as the reports on the
Working Group’s visits to Croatia; Montenegro; and Serbia, including Kosovo
(Reference to Kosovo should be understood in full compliance with UN Security
Council resolution 1244).
The Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group will also present
the Working Group’s Thematic Study on Enforced Disappearance and Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the follow-up reports on the
recommendations made by the Working Group upon past visits to Mexico and Timor
Leste.*
The Working Group’s 107th session is held in private. A
press release will be issued at the end of the session, on 18 September 2015.
(*) Check the reports: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session30/Pages/ListReports.aspx
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The Working Group is comprised of five independent experts
from all regions of the world. The Chair-Rapporteur is Mr. Ariel Dulitzky
(Argentina) and the Vice-Chair is Ms. Jasminka Dzumhur (Bosnia and
Herzegovina); other members are Ms. Houria Es-Slami (Morocco), Mr. Bernard
Duhaime (Canada), and Mr. Tae-Ung Baik (Republic of Korea).
The Working Group was established by the then UN Commission
on Human Rights in 1980 to assist families in determining the fate and
whereabouts of disappeared relatives. It endeavours to establish a channel of
communication between the families and the Governments concerned, to ensure
that individual cases are investigated, with the objective of clarifying the
whereabouts of persons who, having disappeared, are placed outside the
protection of the law. In view of the Working Group's humanitarian mandate, clarification
occurs when the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person are clearly
established. The Working Group continues to address cases of disappearances
until they are resolved. It also provides assistance in the implementation by
States of the United Nations Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance. Learn more, log on to:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Disappearances/Pages/DisappearancesIndex.aspx
How to submit cases to the Working Group?:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disappear/docs/Communication_form_E.doc
Read the UN Declaration on the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearance:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/EnforcedDisappearance.aspx
For more information and media requests, please contact Mr.
Ugo Cedrangolo (+41 22 917 9286 or ucedrangolo@ohchr.org / wgeid@ohchr.org)
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