30 August 2011 - To joins the families of th world’s thousands of families, our Coalitio implement the Intern Disappearance (The and Secretary-General The forty member-or creative ways of payin respective governmen recognize the compete independent experts t Parties. The ICAED b of enforced disappeara To date, 88 States ar competence of the Co number of States Parti thus, intensification o imperative. Hence, fo rights, they must spee the right to truth and t As the international c ICAED vows to intens its mandate of campai implementation of the This year is the first U Disappeared. In 201 organizations as well magnitude of the cri Enforced or Involunta been commemorating t Signed by: MARY AILEEN D. Focal Person of the IC http://www.icaed.org c/o Asian Federation A Rooms 310-311 Philip Commonwealth Ave., Tel:: 00-63-2-4907862 Telefax: 00-63-2-4546 PRESS RELE International Day of the Disa ay, the International Coalition Agai disappeared and the whole internati isappeared people. “ For them an exists to knock at doors of all S ational Convention for the Prote onvention), ” stated Mary Aileen D. of the Asian Federation Against Invo anizations of the ICAED from aro g homage to the disappeared. In so s to finally accede to the anti-en nce of the UN Committee on Enfor at monitors the implementation of t elieves that the Convention is a very ces and to combat impunity. e signatories and 29 are States Pa mmittee on Enforced Disappearance s to the Convention pales in compar campaign and lobbying to garne States to be true to the universality, up the process of signing and ratif e right not to be subjected to enforce ommunity commemorates the Inter ify its efforts at the national, region gning for as as many States ratifica onvention. nited Nations (UN) official comme 0, the UN called on its system as civil society to observe the Day e as reconfirmed by the annual r y Disappearances, the UN joins the his day for already almost three deca A CALSO ED gainst Involuntary Disappearances ines Social Science Center Bldg. iliman, Quezon City, Philippines 50 SE peared 2011 st Enforced Disappearances (ICAE nal community in giving tribute to t because of them and their sufferi ates urging them to sign, ratify a tion of All Persons from Enforc Bacalso, Focal Person of the ICAE untary Disappearances. nd the globe are conducting vario oing, they reiterate their calls to th orced disappearance Convention a ed Disappearances. It is the body he anti-disappearance treaty by Stat owerful tool to put to a stop the cri ties with only 12 that recognize t s. Bacalso further noted that: “ T son with the global extent of the crim r wide support to the Convention indivisibility and indepence of hum ing this important treaty that provid disappearances.” ational Day of the Disappeared, t l and international levels to concreti tions as possible and ensure univers oration of the International Day of t and other international and region starting 2011. Recognizing the glob ports of the UN Working Group families of the disappeared who ha es. ) e g d d D s ir d f es e e e e, is n s e e al e al al n e