(a) Prevent the involvement of such officials in enforced disappearances

It was further reported that while the number of disappearances has reportedly declined, they continue to occur.

Affirming the right of victims to know the truth about the circumstances of an enforced disappearance and the fate of the disappeared person,

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It's Alan, he's missing. Missing?

(a) Mitigating circumstances, in particular for persons who, having been implicated in the commission of an enforced disappearance, effectively contribute to bringing the disappeared person forward alive or make it possible to clarify cases of enforced disappearance or to identify the perpetrators of an enforced disappearance

It also reports cases of staff members who are missing or whose whereabouts remain unknown, some for almost 20 years.

Each State Party shall take the necessary measures to guarantee the right of victims of enforced disappearances to belong to organizations and associations concerned with establishing the circumstances of enforced disappearances and the fate of disappeared persons, and with providing assistance to the victims of enforced disappearances.

(a) Prevent the involvement of such officials in enforced disappearances

I think we got an angle on the reporters.

32. The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is one of the extra conventional mechanisms established by the Commission on Human Rights. Its main purpose is to deal with individual cases of disappearances, trying to assist the relatives of disappeared persons to ascertain the fate and whereabouts of their missing family members.

Missing?

266. The Working Group remains concerned at continued reports of recent cases of disappearance, in particular of members or sympathizers of the MQM.

DISAPPEARANCE HAVE BEEN CLARIFIED Kazakstan

41. In the cases of some of the above mentioned disappearances, the Observer Mission has been approached by the families of the missing persons or has been in a position to take steps to clarify what happened to them.

Disappeared persons

C. Disappearances

In addition, those cases continued to be transferred to military jurisdiction whenever members of the armed forces or the police appeared to be implicated in a disappearance.

(b) Emphasize the importance of prevention and investigations in relation to enforced disappearances

(c) Ensure that the urgent need to resolve cases of enforced disappearance is recognized.

The Missing Persons detail is part of the Homicide Division.

Complaints relating to disappeared persons are dealt with by the Registry of Disappeared Persons.

202. The great majority of the 16,329 cases of disappearance reported to have occurred in Iraq concern persons of the Kurdish ethnic group who allegedly disappeared in 1988.

These country specific observations have been prepared on all countries with more than 50 alleged cases of disappearance or where more than 5 cases were reported during the period under review.

2. Disappearances

STILL MISSING

Who's disappeared?

He was lifted.

D. Draft international convention on the prevention and punishment of enforced disappearances

93. The Working Group is concerned about the recently reported cases of disappearance.

192. All of the newly reported cases occurred in East Timor.

Reported missing 2 years ago by his daughter Angela Vetto.

7. Each State Party shall guarantee the right to form and participate freely in organizations and associations concerned with attempting to establish the circumstances of enforced disappearances and the fate of disappeared persons, and to assist victims of enforced disappearance.

As in previous years, the Working Group received reports and expressions of concern from non governmental organizations, associations of relatives of disappeared persons and individuals about the safety of persons actively engaged in the search for missing persons, in reporting cases of disappearance or in the investigation of cases.

Furthermore, disappearances violate article 7 with regard to the relatives of the disappeared.

The one other case of reported disappearance pending with the Working Group is said to have occurred in 1993 and concerns a student who allegedly disappeared in Kathmandu.

In four other cases the Government stated that there were no records of the detention or arrest of the disappeared persons, while in two others the disappeared persons appeared to have fled the country.

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Well, I've been examining the files on missing persons, and I've discovered a remarkable similarity amongst them.

Any act of enforced disappearance places the persons subjected thereto outside the protection of the law and inflicts severe suffering on them and their families.

The total impunity with which the perpetrators of the crime of enforced disappearance seem to be able to act is conducive to a climate in which enforced disappearance can easily occur.

So we went to the mall and we told a police that we had, like, lost her, that she was missing.

We told a security guard that she was missing, though she wasn't missing.

We're not missing any flight 107, or any other flight.

5. Enforced disappearances