Spanish GENEVA (21 March 2016) – Defining a crime as enforced disappearance does not depend on how long a person is detained without their whereabouts being divulged, UN experts have stressed after...

GENEVA (21 March 2016) – The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances has published it findings on the countries examined during its latest session from 7 to 18 March: Tunisia, Burkina Faso and...

ROUNDUP GENEVA (18 March 2013) - The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closed its tenth session today after hearing statements by Juan Jose Lopez Ortega, Committee Rapporteur, and Emmanuel Decaux...

GENEVE (11 March 2016) - The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon marked the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from...

GENEVA (10 March 2016) - The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Kazakhstan on how that country implements the provisions of the...

GENEVA (9 March 2016) - The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Burkina Faso on how that country implements the provisions of the...

GENEVA (8 March 2016) - The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Tunisia on how that country implements the provisions of the International...

GENEVA (7 March 2016) - The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this morning opened its tenth session, hearing a statement by Simon Walker, Chief of Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural...