International Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance

A/RES/70/160View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 72b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2016.

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?

3 subjects

Disappearance of Persons Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance;²

²United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2716, No. 48088.

Recognizes the importance of the Convention, the ratification and the implementation of which will be a significant contribution to ending impunity and to promoting and protecting all human rights for all;

Welcomes the fact that 95 States have signed the Convention and 51 have ratified or acceded to it, and calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider signing, 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;

Also welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;³

³A/70/261.

Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to increase their intensive efforts to assist States in becoming parties to the Convention, including by supporting the actions of States to ratify the Convention, providing technical and capacity-building assistance to States and civil society and raising awareness about 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 to make efforts to disseminate information on the Convention, to promote understanding of it and to assist States parties in implementing their obligations under this instrument;

Welcomes the work achieved by the Committee, and encourages all States parties to the Convention to submit their reports, to support and promote the work of the Committee and to implement its recommendations;

Recognizes the importance of the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance⁴ as a body of principles for all States designed to punish enforced disappearances, to prevent their commission and to help victims of such acts and their families to seek fair, prompt and adequate reparation;

⁴Resolution 47/133.

Welcomes the cooperation established between the Working Group and the Committee, within the framework of their respective mandates, and encourages further cooperation in the future;

Takes note with interest of all the general comments of the Working Group, including the most recent comments on children⁵ and women⁶ affected by enforced disappearances, and recognizes in this regard that enforced disappearances have special consequences for women and vulnerable groups, especially children, as they most often bear the serious economic hardships that usually accompany such disappearances and, when subjected to enforced disappearances themselves, may become particularly vulnerable to sexual and other forms of violence;

⁵A/HRC/WGEID/98/1 and Corr.1.

⁶A/HRC/WGEID/98/2.

Welcomes the fact that the Committee held its annual meeting with the Working Group, as an opportunity to take stock of the activities of the two parallel organs, which are complementary and reinforce each other within the framework of their respective mandates;

Decides to devote one high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly, within existing resources, at its seventy-first session to the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention, and requests the President of the General Assembly to conduct consultations with Member States in order to determine the modalities for that meeting;

Invites the Chair of the Committee and the Chair of the Working Group to address and engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its seventy-first and seventy-second sessions under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-first and seventy-second sessions a report on the status of the Convention and the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to give its full consideration to the subject matter at its seventy-second session.

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