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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 ...
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 victim outside the protection of the law.
The Inter-American Convention on The Forced Disappearance of Persons is a treaty of the Organization of American States (OAS) intended to combat the forced disappearance of persons. The convention was adopted in 1994. Ratification is open to all members of the OAS and as of 2014, the convention has been ratified by 15 states.
The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance is an international human rights instrument of the U.N. intended to prevent forced disappearance, which ...
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 ...
The case marks the first time an enforced disappearance case has been tried in Switzerland under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows states to prosecute individuals suspected of ...
The disappearance of the 30-year-old Hawaii woman captivated the nation. ... And unlike in cases where people have misled law enforcement about their disappearance, police likely won't investigate ...
Under international law, an enforced disappearance is defined as a detention of two days or more which, unlike an ordinary detention, includes the denial by the State of any information on the whereabouts of a person.