News Archive
| 15.06.09 | Kenya: Government must act urgently to end impunity and bring about essential reforms Extensive research shows longstanding and widespread human rights violations like enforced disappearances by police and security. The Accord and the establishment of the Coalition Government presented a window of opportunity to break the persistent culture of impunity and bring about much needed... read more | |
| 15.06.09 | Peru: Human rights organisation reports disappearances The Human Rights Association of Peru (APRODEH) has reported that 61 people are still missing in the area of the Peruvian Amazon where 24 policemen and 9 civilians where killed last weekend. Continue reading this news article in Spanish. read more | |
| 09.06.09 | Sri Lanka: Avoid a Postwar Witch Hunt On the 3rd of June Human Rights Watch has declared that the Sri Lankan government should ensure that military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam does not result in new "disappearances," unlawful killings or the jailing of government critics read more | |
| 03.06.09 | ICJ urges Nepalese Government to enact Bill On the second anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision on enforced disappearances, the ICJ has urged the Government to enact the Bill on enforced disappearances. read more | |
| 02.06.09 | Kashmir: "Tragedy of contradictions" Analysis on the series of contradictory reports and statements made by the Indian Government in relation to the number and reasons for disappearances that have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir since the end of the ‘80s. read more | |
| 02.06.09 | Colombia: Collection of signatures by the Convention against Enforced Disappearances Last May 30 thousands of people gathered in the Colombian cities of Bogota and Medellin to collect signatures to request President Álvaro Uribe to ratify the International Convention against Enforced Disappearances. Continue reading this news item in Spanish read more | |
| 02.06.09 | Nepal: UN presses Government to follow Court judgment on disappearances The United Nations human rights office in Nepal encourages the fledgling Government to take action on a watershed Supreme Court decision, made two years ago, calling for an investigation into those behind scores of disappearances during the South Asian nation's decade-long civil war. read more | |
| 28.05.09 | Sri Lanka: UN Human Rights Council adopts Resolution The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on the situation in Sri Lanka that focuses mainly on abuses committed by the LTTE. read more | |
| 28.05.09 | Zimbabwe: Abducted Pastor released unharmed Pastor Berejena abducted on monday the 25th of May by unidentified individuals in a white vehicle has been released unharmed on Wednesday the 27th of May. read more | |
| 25.05.09 | Turkey: Ergenekon a crime against humanity The article linked here is a reflection about the cases of enforced disappearances in Turkey with the occasion of the Week of Disappeared Persons. During the 1990s almost 1,800 members of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) disappeared. It is only the investigation in Ergenekon that is revealing the... read more |