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| 23.09.08 | ECHR condemns Russia for an enforced disappearance in its 10,000 judgement On the 18th of September the European Court of Human Rights announced its 10,000th judgement, Takhayeva and Others v. Russia (no. 23286/04), which unanimously condemned Russia for the enforced disappearance of a twenty-year-old man in Chechnya in November 2002, according to the organisation... read more | |
| 22.09.08 | Spain: Garzón receives today 130.137 names of victims of Franco's repression Judge Garzón is presented today with a list of 130.137 victims of the civil war and the following repression. Collaborators to this project have used the form of the UN Working Group against Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to collect information about the victims and their disappearances. read more |  |
| 22.09.08 | Secret Memo Confirms Existence of CIA Prison, Polish Paper Says A Polish newspaper has reported that a top secret memo confirms the existence of a secret CIA prison in Poland, a claim rejected by the Polish government. read more |  |
| 22.09.08 | Belarus: Authorities don’t investigate cases of missing people Famous human rights activist Aleh Vouchak submitted materials to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, proving the Belarusian authorities refuse to give to the public true information about investigation of high-profiled cases of disappearances of opposition leaders and a... read more |  |
| 09.09.08 | Spain: Newspaper El Pais interviews historians about Garzon's inciative for census on disappearances Spanish newspaper El Pais asks historians Paul Preston, Julián Casanova, José Álvarez Junco, Borja de Riquer and Sisinio Pérez Garzón comments on the iniciative of Judge Garzon to build a census of disappeared people during the Civil War and following Franco's regime. Difficult but necessary are... read more |  |
| 09.09.08 | Namibia: NSHR releases report on found unmarked gravesites Today the Namibian organization National Society for Human Rights makes public a report about the unmarked graves that have been found in northern Namibia and southern Angola. read more |  |
| 04.09.08 | Spain: Census claimed by Garzón will take years Judge Nicolás Baltasar Garzón requests the elaboration of a census of disappeared people during the Spanish Civil War, to decide whether complaints from Associations of Recovery of Memory are acceptable. The Ministry of Defense has ignored this requests for two months and Ministry of Culture... read more |  |
| 04.09.08 | Spain: La curva de las mujeres (The women's curve) News article published in El Pais about the exhumation of 16 bodies (15 women and a child) who were disappeared, tortured and killed during the Spanish Civil War. Continue reading this article in Spanish read more | |
| 02.09.08 | Organisation COFADER organised mass in commemoration of Day of Disappeared The mass service took place in the parish of Cristo Liberador in San Juan de Lurigancho read more |  |
| 02.09.08 | Guatemalan programme 'Todos por el reencuentrol' gets recognition The organisation 'Liga de Higiene Mental' and families of the disappeared who collaborate on the programme 'Todos por el Reencuentro' received recognition from the Presidential Commission of Human Rights. read more |  |