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August 30, 2014

Take Action, Stand up for the disappeared and their families. Not sure what to do? Here are a few ideas to get you started: Consider including enforced disappearance in your school projects.

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30 August
Access to Integral reparations
Access to justice for victims
Arbitrary detentions & enforced disappearances in conflict settings
art contributes to justice by breaking the silence of untold stories
Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances
Breaking the silence of untold stories

Building a collective memory
Building the capacity of local actors
Challenges; Lessons learned and recommendations for protecting at-risk individuals
Citizen
Combat impunity for the crime of enforced disappearance
Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Consider including enforced disappearance in your school projects.
Considerations
Convention Against Enforced Disappearances Initiative (CEDI)
Develop & implement an effective and efficient national policy for the prevention and eradication of enforced disappearances.
Developing and implementing context-specific strategies
Disappearances of Persons
Duty to Investigate
Duty to Search
Enforced Disappearance Legal Database (EDLD)
Enhance Cooperation between the stakeholders involved in investigations.
Establish specialized mechanisms to investigate on such disappearances
Euro-Mediterranean Federation against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED)
European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC)
Explain why ratifying the Convention is important?
Explore UJ as a tool to combat impunity
Facilitate the reporting of disappearances
Factors contributing to enforced disappearances of migrants
Focus on Families’ inalienable right to know the truth regarding the circumstances of the enforced disappearance
Focus on the growing trend of enforced disappearances in the context of migration
Foreign unaccompanied minors
Friends of a Disappeared
From victim to activist
Guaranteeing the rights of children who are victims of enforced disappearances
Guide States in implementing the Convention and enhance cooperation and assistance between States.
High-Level Events
Highlight the urgency and necessity of eradicating the heinous crime of enforced disappearances
Illegal international adoptions
Improving data collection
improving protection effort
Include enforced disappearance into the curriculum of social
Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED)
International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
Investigating enforced disappearances for the benefit of the family members of victims.
Journalists
legal and historical studies of your students
NGOs
No disappeared person’s fate shall remain unresolved
No national law shall stay insufficient
No one shall be subject to enforced disappearance
No perpetrator shall go unpunished
Offer a comprehensive roadmap to support the State in addressing the persistent heinous crime of enforced disappearances
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
OHCHR
Ongoing & concluded cases concerning enforced disappearances
Panel Discussions
Permanent Representatives
plenary sessions
Press conferences
Prevent Involuntary disappearances
Professional psychological assistance
Professors
Protect all persons from enforced disappearances
Provide support to victims
Provide tangible proposals in the long-term quest of finding answers and revealing the fate of the missing
Publish stories explaining what is enforced disappearance
Punish these crimes & prevent them from happening again
Ratifications
Relative of a Disappeared
repair the damage suffered by the victims
Replicating successful strategies for diplomatic engagement
Reporters without Borders
Resolution A/RES/61/177
Review Laws & Practices
Search for and locate disappeared persons
Send letters to your government representatives & politicians to explain why they must ratify the Convention
Sensitising societies to issues related to past violence; justice and reform
Strengthening national legal and institutional frameworks
Students and Scholars
Tailored; Holistic approaches to victim support
Take Action!
Teachers
The disappeared and their families at the centre
The quest for truth; Justice and Reparation
The reparations act
The Right to know the truth about the fate and whereabouts of those forcibly disappeared
The Right to the Truth
The timeline for victims to receive compensation
UN Committee Against Torture Vice-Chair
UN Committee and Working Group on Enforced disappearances
Undermine criminal responsibility in cases of enforced disappearances
Underscore the leadership role that women take on following the disappearance of a loved one
UNHQ
United Nations Office in Geneva
Universal Jurisdiction (UJ)
Unlawful arrests
Victim and CSO crucial contribution to UN mechanisms
Victim-led art projects
Victims’ collectives and civil society organisations.
Voices from the World
World Congress on Enforced Disappearances

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