{"id":89,"date":"2005-10-01T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T23:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/10\/01\/un-adopts-international-treaty-again"},"modified":"2005-10-01T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T23:47:09","slug":"un-adopts-international-treaty-against-forced-disappearances-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/10\/01\/un-adopts-international-treaty-against-forced-disappearances-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UN adopts international treaty against forced disappearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a550'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The United Nations has adopted an international treaty against forced disappearances, called the <a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/english\/docs\/2005\/09\/26\/global11785.htm\">International Convention for the <\/a><\/font><font face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/english\/docs\/2005\/09\/26\/global11785.htm\">Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances<\/a>. Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the <\/font><font face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">International Federation of Human Rights, and Human Rights Watch commended the great step forward in the fight against forced <\/font><font face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">disappearances, and called on all&nbsp; UN member states to ensure that the treaty is ratified as soon as possible. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">This<br \/>\nconvention is an important development in the fight against forced<br \/>\ndisappearances for several reasons. First, it is an autonomous treaty<br \/>\nwith its own monitoring organizations. This guarantees that the treaty<br \/>\nwill be effective in the future, even <\/font><font face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">after<br \/>\nreforms of the UN human rights system. Further, while the convention is<br \/>\nbased on established standards in customary law, it also recognizes a<br \/>\nnew right not to be subjected to forced disappearances; thus, it is an<br \/>\nimportant step forward in the development of international law on the<br \/>\nissue. The convention also recognizes that forced disappearance can be<br \/>\nconsidered a crime against humanity it some instances, and so can be<br \/>\nprosecuted in international criminal proceedings. Finally, the<br \/>\nconvention&#8217;s establishment of several legal instruments, such as the<br \/>\nmandatory jurisdiction of the treaty&#8217;s committe in the case of urgent<br \/>\nappeals, will further the effective prevention of forced<br \/>\ndisappearances. <\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><em>The<br \/>\nConvention will be an invaluable tool in the fight against impunity for<br \/>\nperpetrators of forced disappearances. The four human rights<br \/>\norganizations also believe that the treaty provides a solid platform<br \/>\nfor the future, and they will watch to ensure that it is interpreted in<br \/>\nan evolutionary way.<\/em><\/font> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has adopted an international treaty against forced disappearances, called the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances. Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Federation of Human Rights, and Human Rights Watch commended the great step forward in the fight against forced disappearances, and called on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}