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Enforced disappearances in The Gambia - Photos of people who disappeared during Yahya Jammeh's reign.
3 July 2023 by Mariam Sankanu
The disappeared in The Gambia, a missing investigation In its recently disclosed implementation plan, the Gambian government says it will set up a task force to complete and expand the work accomplished by the Truth commission on enforced disappearances. Four cases involving five indi [...]
In Argentina, a man is dragged on the ground by the military
19 July 2022 by Guido Bilbao
Argentina’s Ultimate Rendez-Vous with Justice On July 6, 19 former members of the Argentine Armed Forces accused of crimes of torture, kidnapping, homicide, as well as raids, aggravated robberies and aggravated sexual abuse against hundreds of detainees, most of them disappea [...]
A priest and musicians celebrate a mass in memory of 3 victims of enforced disappearances in Guatemala in the 1980s.
8 July 2022 by Sanne Weber
Universal jurisdiction: what can Belgian justice bring for Guatemalan victims? In the early 1980s, three Belgian missionaries were killed and disappeared in Guatemala. More than 40 years after the crimes took place, on June 14 a Belgian court has ordered the arrest of five former high-level Guatemalan govern [...]
Grave of a missing and unidentified person in Colombia (inscription:
7 June 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
In Colombia, the end of a mother’s 20-year quest for a missing daughter Arnobia Gutiérrez’s quest is about to finally come to an end as soon as she receives, in a solemn ceremony, the remains of her daughter Natalia who had been missing for 20 years after she was recruited as a child by the ELN guerri [...]
Different figures (tens of thousands) of forced disappearances in Colombia. In the background, silhouette of an unknown face.
19 April 2022 by Adriana Rudling
What’s behind the numbers of disappeared in the Colombian armed conflict? There are conflicting numbers on forced disappearance in Colombia. Over the years, different registers have appeared that have varying scope and purpose. This recently caused alarm with the UN Committee on Forced Disappearance. Re [...]
Kamel Matmati
28 May 2021 by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: glimmers of hope in the Matmati trial It is 30 years since the murder and disappearance of young Tunisian Islamist activist Kamel Matmati and three years since the trial for him opened, the first to be held before the specialized transitional justice chambers. On 25 M [...]