Committee on Enforced Disappearances

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors the implementation of the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearance by the States parties.

The Committee and its Secretariat work daily to support victims, civil society organizations, National Human Rights Institutions and States to search for and locate disappeared persons, eradicate, punish and prevent this crime, and repair the damage suffered by the victims.

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Key documents

Becoming a Party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance – Practical Guide Fact sheet on Enforced Disappearances Guiding Principles on Enforced Disappearances in the context of COVID-19 Guiding Principles for the search for disappeared persons

Guidelines to prevent and address intimidation and reprisals against individuals and groups cooperating with the Committee (CED/C/8)

Reporting under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: Training Guide (Part I – Manual) Reporting under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: Training Guide (Part II – Training package) Leaflet: the CED and the WGEID in a nutshell

Resources

ROADMAP on the coordination between the CED and the IACHR

The work of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances - Achievements and jurisprudence ten years after the entry into force of the Convention

Brochure: 10th anniversary of the Convention

Stand up 4 Human Rights: stand up for the disappeareds, 30 August 2017

State parties reporting

Blue World Map

All States parties must report on the measures they take to protect the rights of disappeared persons and their relatives.

Reporting guidelines
Calendar of country reviews & documentation deadlines
Country-specific information overview
About States parties reports for CED
Status of reports by country (Excel)

View the database of progress reports by one or more of these criteria.

Calls for input

Call for inputs with a view to issuing a joint statement on the notion of short-term enforced disappearance

Closed - see submissions

Call for contributions - Initial reports under article 29(1) of the Convention - Cambodia and Mauritania - 25th session (11- 29 September 2023)

Deadline:

11 August 2023

Call for contributions - Report on additional information, article 29(4) of the Convention - Mexico - Netherlands - 25th session (11 – 29 September 2023)

Deadline:

11 August 2023

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Sessions

19 Feb to 01 Mar 2024

26th session

See all sessions in the TB database

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Events

12 Jun 2023

7th Meeting of States parties & 2023 elections

14 Jun 2021

6th Meeting of States parties & 2021 elections

25 Jun 2019

5th Meeting of States parties & 2019 elections

20 Jun 2017

4th Meeting of States parties & 2017 elections

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Contact information

Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Palais Wilson - 52, rue des Pâquis
CH-1201 Geneva (Switzerland)
Email: ohchr-ced@un.org
Twitter: @UNTreatyBodies

For Urgent Actions:
CED secretariat
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10 (Switzerland)
Email: ohchr-ced-ua@un.org

For individual complaints:
Petitions Section
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Email: ohchr-petitions@un.org

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Status of ratifications

To date, 72 of the 193 UN Member States have ratified the Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The most recent accessions or ratifications of the Convention are by Maldives (2023), Republic of Korea (2023), Cabo Verde (2022), Luxembourg (2022), Croatia (2022) and Denmark (2022).

CED ratification, including all declarations and reservations