Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

A/HRC/RES/14/10View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2010.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 2008–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/63/34

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/HRC/RES/63/34	Enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,573	—Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/54/14	Enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,426	87%Compare
2020	A/HRC/RES/45/3	Enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,289	94%Compare
2017	A/HRC/RES/36/6	Enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,300	63%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/27/1	Enforced or involuntary disappearances	1,085	26%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

Administration of Justice Anniversaries Children Crime Victims Criminal Investigation Detention Centres Disappearance of Persons International Days Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties Truth Commissions Women Working Groups Written Communications

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14 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the most recent report submitted by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (A/HRC/13/31 and Corr.1) and of the comments and recommendations contained therein;

Calls upon the Governments that have not provided substantive replies concerning allegations of enforced disappearances in their countries to do so and to give due consideration to relevant recommendations concerning this subject made by the Working Group in its reports;

Calls upon Governments to offer support to all victims of enforced disappearances, especially women and children affected by this crime;

Also calls upon Governments to prevent the occurrence of enforced disappearances, including by ensuring that secret places of detention and interrogation are abolished;

Urges Governments to continue their efforts to elucidate the fate of disappeared persons and to ensure that competent authorities in charge of investigation and prosecution are provided with adequate means and resources to resolve cases and bring perpetrators to justice, including after considering the establishment, where appropriate, of specific judicial mechanisms or truth and reconciliation commissions that complement the justice system;

Invites the Working Group to provide the concerned State with relevant information, that is as detailed as possible, concerning allegations of enforced disappearances in order to facilitate a prompt and substantive response to these communications, without prejudice to the need for the concerned State to cooperate with the Working Group;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the Working Group receives all the assistance and resources it requires to perform its mandate;

Welcomes the fact that eighty-three States have signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and eighteen States have ratified or acceded to it, and calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying the Convention as a matter of priority, as well as to consider the option provided for in articles 31 and 32 of the Convention regarding the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, with a view to its entry into force by September 2010;

Invites States to consider joining all efforts to share information on best practices and to work towards the early entry into force of the Convention with the aim of its universality;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize, within existing resources, a one-day event to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Working Group;

Encourages the General Assembly to proclaim 30 August the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances;

Requests the Working Group to prepare a report for submission to the Human Rights Council at its sixteenth session on best practices on enforced disappearances in domestic criminal legislation based on inputs solicited from member States;

Also requests the Working Group to pay particular attention to the situation of women victims of enforced or involuntary disappearances through its activities;

Decides to continue consideration of the matter in conformity with its programme of work.

The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its fourteenth session (A/HRC/14/37), chap. I.

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