UN committee on enforced disappearance registers ‘milestone’ 1,000th request to locate victims
The urgent action procedure allows families, relatives and representatives of disappeared persons to submit a request to CED after having reported the disappearance to relevant national authorities. Nearly half of the requests, or 49 per cent, concern disappearances in Iraq, while 42 per cent are cases in Mexico. A human tragedy “Behind each urgent action request, there is a human…
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