PIA Press Release
Saturday, March 05, 2011
PNoy urged to sign covenant vs enforced disappearance
by Aileen Refuerzo
BAGUIO CITY, Mar 5 (PIA) – City aldermen here are urging President Benigno S. Aquino III to sign the International Convention for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance and to certify the same to the Senate for ratification.
The body approved a resolution authored by Sangguniang Kabataan Federation president Councilor Karminn Cheryl Dinney Yangot.
In her measure, Yangot said the United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons From Enforced Disappearance entered into force in December last year and the said Convention calls on States parties to investigate acts of enforced disappearance and make accountable those who are responsible, to criminalize enforced disappearance of a person, and to guarantee that victims of enforced disappearance or those directly affected by it will have the right to compensation and other forms of reparation.
