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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 OHCHR Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has registered about 46,000 cases of people who disappeared under unknown circumstances. On August 30, 2007, hundreds of Philippine relatives and supporters of desaparecidos, mostly activists, missing after being abducted or killed by Philippine security forces protested against ...
Wisconsin authorities believe a father of three who disappeared on Aug. 12 may have staged his disappearance and fled to Europe.. Ryan Borgwardt's family reported him missing that Monday when he ...
Madeline Soto, 13, disappeared on 27 February in Kissimmee, Florida. Her mother’s boyfriend Stephan Sterns (right) is the lead suspect (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
During the negotiations for the convention from 2001 to 2003 in Geneva in the 'Open ended working group to draft a legally binding instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance' family members of disappeared from all continents and international human rights NGOs such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch ...
"My father took my mother's life in a state of rage and control," San Antonio Express-News reported. Suzanne Simpson, 51, disappeared on Oct. 6 after reportedly fighting with her husband of 22 ...
This is a list of episodes of Disappeared, a television program broadcast on the Investigation Discovery network that documents missing persons cases.The program was first aired in December 2009, with subsequent seasons shown through 2013, and, after a three-year hiatus, resumed in 2016 through 2018.