Nothing can justify enforced disappearance!

“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for enforced disappearance.”- Article 1 of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Justice for All Desaparecidos of the World!
Sign and Ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance NOW! 

Disappeared but always remembered (Joint statement of FIND and AFAD for IWD)

http://hronlineph.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/statement-disappeared-but-always-remembered/

Every last week of May, the families of the disappeared and human rights advocates around the world join together in commemorating the International Week of the Disappeared. Here in the Philippines, from May 29 to June 4 this year, we remember and honor all the desaparecidos who were snatched from the bosom of their families and society and made to suffer the unknown ordeal. Their memories live on in our hearts and minds.

The International Week of the Disappeared which began as a local tide of protest of the Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared-Detainees (FEDEFAM) more than three decades ago eventually grew into a global tidal wave against the abominable practice of enforced disappearance even as it is an expression of international solidarity for the disappeared and their families. Our continuing observance of this occasion reflects the continuing character of enforced disappearance as much as it mirrors the unabated commission of this state-perpetrated heinous offense.