News Archive
| 05.06.08 | Second Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of Families of Disappeared The Euro-Mediterranean Federation against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) will hold the Second Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of Families of Disappeared focussed on the theme: The Convention against Enforced Disappearances, the challange of Euro-Mediterratean countries. This meeting will take place in... read more | |
| 05.06.08 | The UNWGEID holds their second session in Argentina The UN Working Group against Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances will celebrate their second of the three annual session in Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to non-official sources this meeting will take place from the 23rd to the 26th of July. read more | |
| 03.06.08 | The Committee against Torture asks the Algerian State to investigate on the Disappeared The Collective of Families of the Disappeared in Algeria (CFDA) and the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) congratulate themselves on the firm reminder of today by the Committee against Torture addressing the Algerian State on its obligations to prosecute all imprescriptible... read more | |
| 02.06.08 | The 'Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo' nominated for Nobel Peace Award After two unsuccessful attempts, the Norwegian Nobel Committee that evaluates the candidates of the Nobel Peace Prize accepted the nomination of 'Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo'. read more | |
| 26.05.08 | AFAD Commemorates the Week of the Disappeared The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances joins all families of the disappeared persons around the world in the commemoration of the International Week of the Disappeared from May 26 to June 1. This week of the desaparecidos was first commemorated by the Latin American Federation of... read more | |
| 26.05.08 | Sri Lanka fails to get re-elected to U.N. rights council The Mahinda Rajapaksa government suffered a set back on Wednesday night after Sri Lanka failed to get re-elected to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council following a campaign by human rights groups. read more | |
| 22.05.08 | Turkey: Some 800 victims of enforced disappearance remembered Yakınlarını Kaybedenler Derneği (YAKAY-DER) and the International Committee against Disappearances (ICAD) organise two sit-down strikes, a photo exhibition and panel discussions with the relatives of missing persons. read more | |
| 20.05.08 | Sri Lanka y la ONU por Por Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Como los latinoamericanos conocen muy bien, existe un puñado de crímenes que un Estado puede cometer, que por su naturaleza consisten en eliminar personas consideradas como enemigos políticos, para nunca saber más de ellos. Nuestra región sufrió terriblemente durante la guerra sucia de los años ’70... read more | |
| 20.05.08 | Nobel Prize Winners tell UN: Vote Sri Lanka off Human Rights Council (New York, May 19, 2008) – Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize from three continents called on UN members to reject Sri Lanka’s candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council, the NGO Coalition for an Effective Human Rights Council said today. Nobel laureates Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Adolfo Pérez... read more | |
| 20.05.08 | UN remembers Algeria’s disappeared The UN committee responsible for the application of the international convention against torture is asking Algeria to "send it as quickly as possible a list of the people who disappeared during the 1990s". read more |