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New Online Resource Centre launched on enforced disappearances
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Aim for human rights launched a website that facilitates the international fight against enforced disappearances. The event took place during a meeting of the Pakistan NGO Support Group in Geneva.
An enforced disappearance is a human rights violation that refers to the act of making a person disappeared in an involuntary manner. Frequently this crime is committed directly by a government or with its acknowledgment, as a way of repression. Because the government denies any involvement or knowledge of the fate of the victim, he or she is at risk of being tortured or murdered.
Support against disappearances
The Enforced Disappearances Information Exchange Center (EDIEC) supports human rights defenders, relatives of disappeared persons and lawyers in their work against enforced disappearances. The new website compiles information about the phenomenon of involuntary disappearances around the world. Those involved can find reports, treaty texts and jurisprudence, in addition to a platform for exchange of information, at www.enforceddisappearances.org. The website has been developed by Aim for human rights, and co-financed by the European Union.
