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The family suspected the Philippine government military in his abduction. [140] Del Rosario, who was never seen nor heard from since, is considered the first victim of enforced disappearance during the Marcos regime. [141] The Southern Tagalog 10 was a group of activists working in Central Luzon during Marcos' martial law in the Philippines. [142]
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 ...
But the definition of the Missing or the Disappeared goes far beyond the victims of enforced disappearance. It includes all those whose families have lost contact as the result of conflicts, natural disasters or other tragedies. These missing may be detained, stranded in foreign countries, hospitalized or dead.
“We urge Ms. Kobayashi to contact her family, law enforcement or personnel at the U.S. Embassy to let us know that she is safe,” Police Chief McDonnell told reporters on Monday, Dec. 2.
While the families reported the disappearances, the victims were unjustly imprisoned, tortured and finally killed. In Argentina, they were loaded onto a plane and thrown into the sea. During the Argentina's military dictatorship (1976–1983), almost 30,000 people disappeared in this way, permanently and without leaving any trace.
Israeli families of victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks appealed on Tuesday to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to order an investigation of the killings and abductions, despite Israel's ...
Right to truth is the right, in the case of grave violations of human rights, for the victims and their families or societies to have access to the truth of what happened. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The right to truth is closely related to, but distinct from, the state obligation to investigate and prosecute serious state violations of human rights.
The families of the six victims of the Covenant School shooting said they were thankful for a Nashville judge's ruling that records related to the shooting will not be released at this time.