International Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance

A/RES/65/209View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 68b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

16 versions · 2006–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/201

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/201	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance	2,072	96%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/207	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance	2,086	77%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/158	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance	1,730	76%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/161	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance	1,328	81%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/183	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance	1,094	77%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

9 reports · 2013–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/298	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/207
2021	A/76/315	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/161
2019	A/74/213	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/183
2017	A/72/280	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/160
2016	A/71/278	International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/160

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Disappearance of Persons International Days Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the adoption of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;⁴

⁴Resolution 61/177, annex.

Also welcomes the fact that eighty-seven States have signed the Convention and twenty-one have ratified or acceded to it, enabling it to enter into force on 23 December 2010, and calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider signing and ratifying or acceding to 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;

Further welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;⁵

⁵A/65/257.

Decides to declare 30 August the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, to be observed beginning in 2011, and calls upon Member States, the United Nations system and other international and regional organizations, as well as civil society, to observe this Day;

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue their intensive efforts to assist States in becoming parties to the Convention, with a view to achieving universal adherence;

Requests United Nations agencies and organizations, and invites intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, to continue making efforts to disseminate information on the Convention, to promote understanding of it, to prepare for its entry into force and to assist States parties in implementing their obligations under this instrument;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a report on the status of the Convention and the implementation of the present resolution.

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