AFAD 25 Years Video Teaser

This AFAD video teaser is an opening salvo of the yearlong campaign and fight Against Enforced Disappearances and for the Protection, not Persecution, of Human Rights Defenders, across Asia.

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Manila: Today, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) remembers Masood Janjua, a businessman from Pakistan who was disappeared on 30th July 2005, along with his friend while they were travelling in a bus to Peshawar. Masood’s disappearance 14 years ago was the first recorded and documented case of disappearance in Pakistan that led to a movement against enforced disappearances in the country.

67th CAT session (22 July – 9August 2019)

Joint submission by: Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC); Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD); Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUMASIA); FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights; Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; Odhikar; World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)

Manila: The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) stands in solidarity with victims and survivors of torture all across the world today on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

The United Nations condemns torture as one of the vilest acts perpetrated by human beings on their fellow human beings. Torture is one of the most abhorrent forms of human rights violations. It is aimed at utterly destroying the victim’s sense of dignity.Torture is a contemptible act that causes extreme and irreversible psychological and physical damages on the individual.

May 26-31, 2019: Every last week of May, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) joins the global community in observing the International Week of the Disappeared. This year, AFAD remembers those who have been forcibly disappeared and strengthens its resolve to create a world free from enforced disappearances.

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