International Day of the Disappeared
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The International Day of the Disappeared is marked each year on 30 August to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives.
The initiative for the day came from the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared (Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos, or FEDEFAM) in Costa Rica, an association of local and regional groups actively working against secret imprisonment and forced disappearances in a number of Latin-American countries. (...)
Selected learning materials:
http://www.hrea.org/index.php?doc_id=1392
Sull'argomento:
L'appello:
http://www.amnesty.it/giornata-internazionale-scomparsi-2012
Informazione di base:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_All_Persons_from_Enforced_Disappearance
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