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16 October 2026

“We Are Still Here”: Families of the disappeared shape a new Global Alliance initiative

A bank account frozen, an identity card refused, a form with no honest answer. Twenty years after the adoption of the Convention against enforced disappearance, three women from Mexico, Thailand and Pakistan describe the lives that must go on while their loved one was disappeared — and the UN initiative built to change how institutions treat them.
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A group of about two dozen people, mostly women, stand together smiling in a meeting room, in front of two banners reading “CED20 – Victims First. Action Now.” and “Global Alliance for Human Rights.” Several wear headscarves, a sari or lanyards with UN badges; a flip chart with handwritten notes stands behind them.

16 October 2026

“We Are Still Here”: Families of the disappeared shape a new Global Alliance initiative

A woman stands with her eyes closed and her gloved hands clasped at her chest, a scarf covering her head, in dry scrubland where others are searching.

28 August 2026

Families searching for their disappeared still ask: Where are they?

Berta Oliva points to one of the photographs of disappeared persons on display at the Home Against Oblivion in Santana, Honduras.

29 May 2026

Enforced Disappearances in Honduras: “We are not willing to give up on truth and justice”

A black-and-white photograph of two people embracing, overlaid with a bold blue silhouette of a figure. The image is framed within a blue rectangle on a worn, textured background, evoking absence and the pain of enforced disappearance.

30 March 2026

Victims first. Action now: Join us to prevent and stop enforced disappearances

People seated around a large conference table in a wood-panelled UN meeting room, with country nameplates including France, Chile, Panama and the United Kingdom visible. Two screens on the walls show a speaker at the podium. The room is full, with bright natural light coming through tall windows on the left.

16 March 2026

Torture survivors push for landmark charter to turn rights into reality

Displaced Sudanese women carry loads on their heads

05 November 2025

Sudan

"The cost of silence in Sudan’s civil war is too high"

A person standing behind a line and the Nicaraguan flag

06 October 2025

Nicaragua: Power concentrated, rights denied

Foundation for Human Rights in North Korea

12 September 2025

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

“Blocking people’s eyes and ears” – Human rights violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Photos of missing people on a wall in Colombia.

28 August 2025

Women lead search for victims of enforced disappearance in Colombia

Crosses on a field at sunset.

25 August 2025

Justice, land and freedom in Paraguay

A line of silhouettes of people near a fence with a barb wire.

09 July 2025

Disappearances on the move

A mural of two young men

19 March 2025

Seeking justice for state violence in Mexico

An illustration of two people hugging which was part of an illustration exhibit that took place during the first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances.

24 January 2025

Global voices unite at the first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances

Indigenous people march in Paraguay.

22 January 2025

One Year later human rights pledges turn into human rights actions

Sombath Somphone was disappeared 12 years ago. © Shui-Meng Ng

04 October 2024

“Where is Sombath?” Family of disappeared Lao activist demands answers

A man hugs a woman in an inspection in Mexico

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