Issued by
Working Group on Disappearances
Last updated
18 August 2020
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Since 2013, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) has been producing thematic studies and presenting their findings to the Human Rights Council and to the General Assembly. Previous thematic reports have covered a wide-ranging set of concerns, including enforced disappearances in the context of migration (A/HRC/36/39/Add.2), enforced disappearances and economic, social and cultural rights (A/HRC/30/38/Add.5) and reparations and enforced disappearances (A/HRC/22/45).
This thematic study on standards and public policies for an effective investigation of enforced disappearances aims to assess through which public policies or institutions and based on which standards States implement their obligation to investigate enshrined in the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. An interim report has been presented to the 39th session of the Human Rights Council and an expert consultation was held on this issue at the margins of the 116th session of the WGEID on 10 September 2018.
The contribution by various stakeholders included relevant information in relation to the following questions:
The questionnaire to States can be found here as well as access to the questionnaires in French and Spanish.
The call for contributions can be found here.
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