Former Chair-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in (2013-2015), talks with IBAHRI Senior Programme Lawyer, Verónica Hinestroza, about the origin and meaning of “enforced disappearances” as a legal term, the current challenges to achieving justice for this grave human rights violation, and the need for clear international guidelines outlining states’ obligation to establish the fate or whereabouts of victims.
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