Enforced Disappearances

Grażyna Baranowska is a Senior Researcher at the Hertie School, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and member of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. Her first book Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons (2021) examined how international bodies in Europe address the needs of the families of forcibly disappeared persons. Milica Kolaković-Bojović, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade and the Vice President of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Her research interest and fields of expertise are focused on criminal justice, justice system reform, human rights and harmonization with international standards. Since 2021 she is also a member of the ICC Advisory Committee on nomination of judges of the International Criminal Court.

Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Dealing with uncertainty: on addressing enforced disappearances universally Grażyna Baranowska and Milica Kolaković-Bojović; 2. Enforced disappearances in armed conflict through the lenses of the international convention for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance Ivan Jovanović; 3. The Guiding principles on the search for disappeared persons – Origins and impact Maria Clara GalvisPatiño and Rainer Huhle; 4. New technologies and enforced disappearances- The working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances exploring a new world between opportunities and challenges Gabriella Citroni; 5. The fate and whereabouts of social rights in the practice of the committee on enforced disappearances Ariel Dulitzky; 6. NGO contribution to eradicate enforced disappearances in Latin America Horacio Ravenna; 7. Contemporary disappearances in Mexico: a conceptual challenge for the international framework on enforced disappearances Lene Guercke; 8. Disappearances of migrants in Africa Eva Nudd and Barbara Lochbihler; 9. Enforced disappearances and the right to reparation in Western Balkans Milica Kolaković-Bojović and Jasminka Džumhur; 10. The strategies to increase the ICPPED ratification with a special attention to Asia-pacific region: being a party as an incessant Act of Treaty-Making Koji Teraya; Bibliography; Index.