Full Description
Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon discusses the UN human rights (both treaty bodies and special procedures) response to the key challenges of missing persons and enforced disappearances, including reparations, family rights, involvement of non-state actors, and the migration context. The book also includes several illustrative case studies from Latin America, Africa, Mexico, Western Balkans, and the Asia-Pacific region, which demonstrate the current challenges and problems relating to enforced disappearances in domestic or regional settings. The book includes contributions from experts in this issue working across a global range of jurisdictions. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Dealing with uncertainty: on addressing enforced disappearances universally Grażyna Baranowska and Milica Kolaković-Bojović; 2. Enforced disappearances in armed conflict through the lenses of the international convention for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance Ivan Jovanović; 3. The Guiding principles on the search for disappeared persons - Origins and impact Maria Clara GalvisPatiño and Rainer Huhle; 4. New technologies and enforced disappearances- The working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances exploring a new world between opportunities and challenges Gabriella Citroni; 5. The fate and whereabouts of social rights in the practice of the committee on enforced disappearances Ariel Dulitzky; 6. NGO contribution to eradicate enforced disappearances in Latin America Horacio Ravenna; 7. Contemporary disappearances in Mexico: a conceptual challenge for the international framework on enforced disappearances Lene Guercke; 8. Disappearances of migrants in Africa Eva Nudd and Barbara Lochbihler; 9. Enforced disappearances and the right to reparation in Western Balkans Milica Kolaković-Bojović and Jasminka Džumhur; 10. The strategies to increase the ICPPED ratification with a special attention to Asia-pacific region: being a party as an incessant Act of Treaty-Making Koji Teraya; Bibliography; Index.