http://www.ediec.org/ Latest News en http://www.ediec.org/fileadmin/templates/images/tt_news_article.gif http://www.ediec.org/ Latest News TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:34:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/gabon-ratifies-the-convention/ The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances was... www.icaed.org]]> Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:32:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/linking-solidarity-press-release/ Press Release The International Convention against Enforced Disappearances Enters into Force... Press Release The International Convention against Enforced Disappearances Enters into Force Today- Aim for human rights explains the Convention on Youtube. Entry into vigour The Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances enters into force today. This legally binding human rights treaty was adopted in December 2006. With Iraq depositing its ratification instruments to the Secretary General of the United Nations past 23^rd of November, the number of ratifications reached the threshold of 20 required for the entry into force of the convention, agreed to start one month after the 20^th ratification. Brazil ratified shortly after Iraq, bringing the number of States that are becoming party to this convention today to 21: Albania, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Honduras, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Paraguay, Senegal, Spain, and Uruguay. Entry into force means that the obligations contracted under this convention become binding for the State-parties as from today. These States shall start today with introducing a number of legislative and other measures at the domestic level. The Entry into force of this convention also allows to announce the creation - six months from now - of a Committee on Enforced Disappearances of 10 experts who will monitor the compliance of States with the obligations they are contracting under this convention. “The entry into force of this legal instrument carries the hope that humanity will succeed in eradicating this terrible crime. We should however always recall that we owe the protection that this convention will offer to the desaparecidos themselves and to the struggle of their relatives worldwide”, says Ewoud Plate of the programme Linking Solidarity, dealing with enforced disappearances at Aim for human rights. 67 other States have signed this convention and should be encouraged to ratify it soon. The Convention on Youtube To mark this milestone day and to contribute to the world campaign for ratification lead by the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED), Aim for human rights releases a short presentation about this convention on the Internet: Video message in English, Spanish and  in French]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:28:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/fidh-ldh-and-codepu-trial-of-the-pinochet-dictatorship/ The organisations FIDH, LDH and CODEPU have released this press note on the trial to 19 persons... On 16 October 1998 General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London at the request of the Spanish judicial authorities.
In the days that followed, the families of nine French citizens who had disappeared or were executed in Chile or in Argentina (but for acts that could be attributed to the Chilean authorities), between 11 September 1973
(the date of the coup d’Etat) and 9 February 1977, filed complaints in France to obtain the truth and justice that they have not obtained in Chile. [...] The trial of the Pinochet dictatorship - A historic trial
This trial is of historic value in several respects Beyond recognition of the individual responsibility of the accused, the trial will be the opportunity to establish and punish the system of repression set up and operated
by the Pinochet dictatorship that reigned in Chile from 1973 to 1990.
Although there are existing proceedings in Chile, none of these has concerned the victims of different crimes jointly, to permit a complete picture to be drawn up of the way the dictatorship operated. Furthermore, proceedings relate here to significant events at the start of the dictatorship that are characteristic of the way it functioned and make its modus operandum perfectly clear:

•  the bombing of the Moneda Presidential Palace and the arrest of the advisers of Salvador Allende;
•  the systematic repression of opponents (amongst whom were activists of the Revolutionary left wing movement MIR) and persons linked to the former government (such as those involved with the great land reform embarked on by Allende);
•  the extremely hierarchical operation of DINA, the junta’s political police force (under the direct orders of Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Contreras);
•  Operation Condor, which aimed at eliminating opponents of the region’s dictatorial regimes;
•  the crimes systematically committed under the Pinochet dictatorship in torture centres such as London 38, Villa Grimaldi, or “Colonia Dignidad” (the latter was
• created and directed by Paul Schaeffer, a former Nazi war criminal).

Read the full document in English, Spanish or French
]]> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:47:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/switzerland-signs-the-convention/ The Federal Council of Switzerland signed last 10th of December the International Convention for... Signature of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
For more information on the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances please visit the ICAED website (www.icaed.org)
]]> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:13:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/brazil-ratifies-the-convention/ Last 29 of November Brazil ratified the International Convention for the Protection of all People... www.icaed.org
]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:39:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/apdp-stages-silent-sit-in-protest-in-srinagar/ Srinagar, November 29 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons... APDP stages silent sit-in protest in Srinagar (Kashmir Media Service)
]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:36:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/enforced-disappearance-the-missing-persons-of-iraq/ Research article about enforced disappearances in Iraq by Dirk Adriaensens Enforced Disappearance: The Missing Persons of Iraq. (Centre for Research in Globalization)
]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:25:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/international-convention-ratified-now-by-20-states-1/ The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons against enforced disappearances was... www.icaed.org]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:57:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/international-convention-ratified-now-by-20-states/ The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons against enforced disappearances was... www.icaed.org]]> Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:57:00 +0100 http://www.ediec.org/nc/news/newsitem/article/convention-against-disappearances-imminent-entry-into-force/ In the last weeks interesting and positive advancements have taken place in the status of...
 
More information on this can be found at this link (Dutch):

http://www.eerstekamer.nl/wetsvoorste/32251_goedkeuring_verdrag_over_de
Two formalities remain for the Dutch ratification to be completed:  the publication of the law in the official State Journal and the presentation of the ratification instruments to the Secretary General of the United Nations

The Dutch ratification would carry not only the symbolic significance of the the 20th ratification, but the Netherlands have also anticipated on the implementation of certain obligations. The Netherlands did not introduce changes in the penal code, but amended the law on international crimes (the law implementing the Rome Statute), therewith offering an interesting model for other States that are parties to the Rome Statute and will ratify the convention against enforced disappearances
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