News Archive
| 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 |  |
| 01.09.08 | Press Release: Amnesty Interational - Musharraf is gone, but still no sign of the disappeared Saturday 30 August is International Day of the Disappeared. Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, calls on Pakistan's new government to publish details on those held in secret detention and shed light on the fate of many disappeared citizens. read more | |
| 01.09.08 | Press release: AFAD 'Reclaming Stolen Lives' The Asian Federation Against Disappearances commemorates the International Day of the Disappeared with the launch of the book entitled 'Reclaiming Stolen Lives'. This book is a collection of articles that reflects the reality of enforced disappearances in a significant number of Asian. It also... read more | |
| 01.09.08 | Press Release: Patricio Rice reflects on the Day of the Disappeared Patricio Rice, human rights defender, consultant of FEDEFAM and former enforced disappeared makes through this press release a reflexion of Day of the Disappeared in its 25th anniversary. Continue reading this statement in Spanish. read more | |
| 01.09.08 | Press Release: UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances on the Day of the Disappeared In this press release the UNWGEID reiterates its solidarity with all the victims of enforced disappearance and acknowledges the efforts of multiple parties who work for disappeared persons. It also shows the Group's concern about growing number of cases of victims mainly in Chad, Pakistan, the... read more |  |
| 01.09.08 | Press Release: National Society for Human Rights on the International Day of the Disappeared The Namibian organization National Society for Human Rights publishes a press release on the International Day of the Disappeared. In this communication NSHR remembers the more than 9,000 cases of enforced disappearances that have occurred in the recent history of Namibia and urges this country to... read more |  |
| 26.08.08 | Kashmir: The quite Fire of the Himalayas This article by Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din published in MWC News analyzes the reasons for the enworsening situation currently lived in Kashmir these being the deterioration of human rights in the area together with a discriminatory state judicial system which guarantees impunity to security forces. The... read more |  |
| 26.08.08 | Franco's Disappeared - A painful past uncovered Article published in the British newspaper The Guardian about the exhumation of the mass graves from Franco's times. Baltasar Garzón, first judge involved in investigating Spain's disappeared, has demanded to open the official archives to reveal how many Spaniards were shot by firing squad and... read more |  |