Women with Disabilities

UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances

The Working Group's basic mandate is to assist the relatives of disappeared persons to ascertain the fate and whereabouts of their disappeared family members. For this purpose the Group receives and examines reports of disappearances submitted by relatives of disappeared persons or human rights organizations acting on their behalf. After determining whether those reports comply with a number of criteria, the Working Group transmits individual cases to the Governments concerned, requesting them to carry out investigations and to inform the Working Group of the results. The Working Group deals with the numerous individual cases of human rights violations on a purely humanitarian basis, irrespective of whether the Government concerned has ratified any of the existing legal instruments which provide for an individual complaints procedure. It acts essentially as a channel of communication between the families of disappeared persons and Governments, and has successfully developed a dialogue with the majority of Governments concerned with the aim of solving cases of disappearance.

Source: OHCHR http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disappear/

1. Panel Discussion: "Thirty years between hope and despair: the experience of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances". available at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disappear/flyer_18march10.htm

2. Statement of the Working Group on the 30th Anniversary. available at: http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=9848&LangID=e

3. How to use the Working Group : available at:http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/disappear/docs/How_to_use_the_WGEID.pdf

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