"Convention Now!"

The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), in no small measure, feels victorious! The United Nations Inter-Sessional Open-Ended Working Group to Elaborate A Draft Legally-Binding Normative Instrument for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances finally approved the text of the United Nations Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Initiated by the Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared-Detainees (FEDEFAM) and much later actively joined by AFAD and supported by a number of international organizations from other continents, the struggle for an international treaty bore initial, yet significant fruit with the unanimous approval of the text on September 22, 2005 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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