Asian Federation Against IDD-IWD
- Category: IDD-AFAD-MO
Rawalpindi; Defence of Human Rights on the occasion of International week of Disappeared has organized a number of online activities starting from 25th May 2020. The very last week of May, families of the disappeared and human rights activists around the world join handsin the activities to commemorate International Week of the Disappeared. This week is observed to show solidarity with the victim families of enforced disappearances. Most of the families have been struggling to find the truth and justice for decades now.This week shall be a reminder for all those families that they do not stand alone in this struggle to find their disappeared loved-ones.
- Category: IDD-AFAD-MO
Philippines (24th to 30th May, 2020): The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) commemorates the International Week of the Disappeared, 2020 and stands in solidarity with the families of the disappeared across continents. Most of these families have been struggling for decades to know the truth about the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones.
Amid the extraordinarily difficult circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, enforced disappearances along with torture, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detention, and other gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms persist.
- Category: IDD-AFAD-MO
The COVID-19 pandemic cannot obliterate enforced disappearance. On the contrary, it may even exacerbate the perpetration of this global scourge.
As we kick off the International Week of the Disappeared (IWD) this year, we think of Joseph Jimeda, fondly called Dodong. On 07 May 2020, Dodong, a resident of Caloocan City left home for the Navotas City fish port to buy fish. Vending fish is his source of livelihood. His wife and children waited for him the whole day and through the night. But Dodong didn’t come home. For a week they were clueless of his whereabouts. Fear engulfed them as they anxiously searched for him. Finally Dodong surfaced with a harrowing tale to tell. He was arrested as he could not produce a Navotas City-issued quarantine pass. They then detained him along with more than 500 other alleged violators of enhanced community quarantine directives.
- Category: IDD-AFAD-MO
A Joint Statement by the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, Asian Human Rights Commission, International Federation for Human Rights and Odhikar on the occasion of International Week of the Disappeared 2020
Dhaka/Manila/Hong Kong/Paris, 25 May 2020: To commemorate International Week of the Disappeared (the last week of May), the Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD), the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and Odhikar remember and pay tribute to victims of enforced disappearance and stand in solidarity with the families of the disappeared during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.