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Women of the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared demonstrate in front of La Moneda Palace during the Pinochet military regime.. An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing the ...
The convention is modelled heavily on the United Nations Convention Against Torture. "Enforced disappearance" is defined in Article 2 of the Convention as the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge ...
The media and race play a role. In recent years, the families of missing people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals have blamed the news media for disproportionately covering cases of young ...
Missing person cases in the United States by state (49 C) Missing person cases in Washington, D.C. (4 P) C. Missing American children (73 P) M. Mary Celeste (13 P)
Enforced disappearances by country (22 C) A. ... Missing person cases in the United States (5 C, 12 P) V. Missing person cases in Venezuela (1 C, 8 P)
The interim government said this week the commission will "investigate enforced disappearances that occurred" since Jan. 1, 2010 "allegedly involving members of the police" and arms of the ...
More than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after being caught by secret police while trying to defect from the isolated country or even for trying to call relatives in South Korea, a Seoul ...