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Call for inputs on women, girls and enforced disappearances (concept note for CED General Comment n°2)

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22 July 2025

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Purpose: For States parties, victims, civil society organizations, national human rights institutions, UN Human Rights Mechanisms, Regional Human Rights Mechanisms, UN country Teams, academia and others to submit written contributions on women, girls and enforced disappearances (concept note for CED General Comment n°2)
Background

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances is starting a process of consultations on its project of General Comment on “women, girls and enforced disappearances”.

At its 28th session (April 2025), the Committee adopted a concept note outlining the issue, objectives and possible scope of the General Comment n°2.

Key questions and types of input/comments sought

Inputs on issues raised in concept note for the General Comment n°2.

Concept Note (word): English | Français | Español

How inputs will be used?

All inputs will be shared with Committee members. When submitting a contribution, please specify if you wish it to be made public or not. Public submissions will be uploaded on the Committee’s webpage in their original language only. The others will remain confidential.

Inputs Received

Inputs Received
NHRIs

Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México

Regional mechanism

Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI)

CSOs

Amnesty International

Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial Brussels and Kharkiv Human Rights Preotection Group

Asia Justice and Rights' (AJAR)

Asociación Unidad de Defensa Jurídica, Registro y Memoria para Nicaragua (AUDJUDR) Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres (MAM) Instituto sobre Raza, Igualdad y Derechos Humanos (Raza e Igualdad)

Association of Reintegration Crimea (ARC)

AsyLex

Border Violence Monitoring Network

Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)

Centro de la Mujer Peruana “Flora Tristán”(CMP) y el Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de las Mujeres en Perú (CLADEM Perú)

Centro de Justicia para la Paz y el Desarrollo, A.C. (CEPAD)

CEPAM Guayaquil (Centro Ecuatoriano para la Promoción y Acción de las Mujeres): input | English version

CIVITAS

CODESEDH (Comité para la Defensa de la Salud, la Ética y los Derechos Humanos)

Colectivo Buscadoras Guanajuato

Comité Digna Ochoa

Committee for Justice (CFJ)

Consorcio para el Diálogo Parlamentario y la Equidad Oaxaca

Crisis Response Group Northern Caucasus SOS

CUBALEX

Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHR)

Dejusticia

El Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez (Centro Prodh)

Equipo Mexicano de Antropología Forense

European Human Rights Advocacy Centre and Stichting Justice Initative (EHRAC-SJI)

Fédération Euro-Méditerranéenne contre les Disparitions Forcées (FEMED)

I(dh)eas Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos A.C. -Casa de las Muñecas Tiresias A.C. -la Especialidad en Identificac

IDHEAS

Instituto Internacional sobre Raza, Igualdad y Derechos Humanos

International Social Service (ISS)

Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF)

La búsqueda de Guadalupe Pamela Gallardo Volante y la lucha contra la inactividad de las autoridades del Estado Mexicano: input | annex-1 | annex-2 | annex-3 | annex-4

Legal Initiative

Maat for Peace, Development, and Human Rights Association

Movimiento por Nuestros Desaparecidos en México y organizaciones acompañantes: input | English version

National Council of Women of Canada

Observatorio de desapariciones forzadas de menores -ODFM

Pixology Foundation for Peace, Development, and Human Rights

Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) Network and Global Rights Compliance (GRC)

CSOs - Academia

CEDEHM y IBERO

Academia

IBERO

Legal Clinic of Pompeu Fabra University

Individuals

Consultora Internacional especializada en la lucha contra la Trata de Personas

Dra. Xochithl Guadalupe Rangel Romero

Group of family Members of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka

Melissa Port and Dr. Mariat Imaeva