World News on Enforced Disappearance

Philippines passes landmark law criminalizing enforced disappearances

Philippines becomes the first country in Asia to criminalize enforced disappearances.

Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances concludes its 110th session

The Working Group examined under its urgent action procedure 121 reported cases of enforced disappearances that have occurred in the last few months – concerning Bangladesh, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Laos, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan and Turkey – as well as more than  600 cases, including newly-reported cases outside the urgent action procedure and updated information on previously accepted ones.

Chibok and the scourge of enforced disappearance

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toyin-ojorasaraki/chibok-and-the-scourge-of_b_11833210.html

Hundreds Abducted And Tortured By Egyptian Security Forces, Amnesty Reports

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2016/07/13/egypt-torture-abduct-dissent_n_10967600.html

Giulio Regeni Is Our Saint

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sara-khorshid/giulio-regeni-is-our-sain_b_9636738.html

Not Even James Bond Can Rescue Mexico’s Image

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/homero-aridjis/james-bond-mexico_b_6972500.html

A New Hope With Every Sunrise for Families of the Disappeared

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-mock/a-new-hope-with-every-sun_b_5745164.html

My Time in Secret Detention in Syria: “We Could Hear the Screams of Torture Victims”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shappal-ibrahim/my-time-in-secret-detenti_b_5738446.html

Northern Irish Travel to D.C. to Advocate for Colombian Peace and Cease Fire

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/colombia-peace-negotiations_b_4986612.html

Three Years Since Revolution, Tunisia Seeks to Reckon With Difficult Past

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-tolbert/three-years-since-revolut_b_4595715.html

Enforced Disappearances: The Search for Justice Often Has a Woman’s Face

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-tolbert/enforced-disappearances-t_b_3836762.html

General Musharraf Must Face Justice

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liaquat-ali-khan/musharraf-return-to-pakistan_b_2944467.html

Pakistan’s War Against Human Rights Watch

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malik-siraj-akbar/pakistan-human-rights-watch_b_2612306.html

Disappearances in Pakistan: The U.N. Mission Must Succeed

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malik-siraj-akbar/disappearances-in-pakista_b_1882776.html

Security Forces, Blamed for Rights Abuses, Irk Pakistan’s Supreme Court

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malik-siraj-akbar/security-forces-blamed-balochistan_b_1714755.html

High Time for Turkey to Come to Terms With Past Enforced Disappearances

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=18477&LangID=E