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Enforced disappearance is one of the most serious human rights violations. It constitutes an autonomous offence and a crime under international law on account of its multiple and continuing character. It is not a phenomenon of the past, nor is it geographically limited to Latin America: such scourge is widespread today and on the increase in other continents. For more than twenty-five years, relatives of disappeared people worldwide have insisted on the pressing need for an international legally binding instrument against enforced disappearances. 2006 is the year of the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances, which represents the result of several legislative and jurisprudential developments that are duly analyzed in this book. The Convention has been opened for signature in February 2007.

Disappeared persons --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Desaparecidos --- Missing persons --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- United Nations. --- High-Level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents --- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights --- Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme --- HCDH (International agency) --- OACDH (International agency) --- OACNUDH (International agency) --- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights --- Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights --- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights --- Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos --- Oficina del Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos --- OHCHR (International agency) --- Organizat︠s︡ii Obʺedinënnykh Nat︠s︡ii Verkhovnyĭ komissar po pravam cheloveka

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