Enforced Dissappearance
ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES introduction Enforced disappearances persist in many countries all over the world, having been a continuing feature of the second half of the twentieth century since they were committed on a gross scale in Nazi-occupied Europe.
An enforced disappearance takes place when a person is arrested, detained or abducted by the state or agents acting for the state, who then deny that the person is being held or conceal their whereabouts, placing them outside the protection of the law.
Very often, people who have disappeared are never released and their fate remains unknown. Their families and friends may never find out what has happened to them.
But the person has not just vanished. Someone, somewhere, knows what has happened to them. Someone is responsible. Enforced disappearance is a crime under international law but all too often the perpetrators are never bought to justice.
Every enforced disappearance violates a range of human rights including: the right to security and dignity of person the right not to be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment the right to humane conditions of detention the right to a legal personality right to a fair trial right to a family life when the disappeared person is killed, the right to life.
Definitions:-
In International Human Rights Law, a forced disappearance occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.
According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which came into force on 1 July 2002, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed at any civilian population, a "forced disappearance" qualifies as a crime
An enforced disappearance takes place when a person is arrested, detained or abducted by the state or agents acting for the state, who then deny that the person is being held or conceal their whereabouts, placing them outside the protection of the law.
Very often, people who have disappeared are never released and their fate remains unknown. Their families and friends may never find out what has happened to them.
But the person has not just vanished. Someone, somewhere, knows what has happened to them. Someone is responsible. Enforced disappearance is a crime under international law but all too often the perpetrators are never bought to justice.
Every enforced disappearance violates a range of human rights including: the right to security and dignity of person the right not to be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment the right to humane conditions of detention the right to a legal personality right to a fair trial right to a family life when the disappeared person is killed, the right to life.
Definitions:-
In International Human Rights Law, a forced disappearance occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.
According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which came into force on 1 July 2002, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed at any civilian population, a "forced disappearance" qualifies as a crime