Summary

In the present report, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances examines how new technologies are being used against relatives of disappeared persons, their representatives and human rights defenders; can be effectively applied to facilitate the search for disappeared persons; and can be used to obtain and secure evidence of the commission of enforced disappearance.

The Working Group makes several recommendations to States, corporations, civil society organizations, national human rights institutions, academic institutions, donors, international courts and other human rights mechanisms and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.