International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances
- International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances
The International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) gathers organizations of families of disappeared and human rights NGOs working in a nonviolent manner against the practice of enforced disappearances at the local, national and international level.
The ICAED is promoting the early ratification and effective implementation of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 20, 2006.
The ICAED was founded officially in September 2007 during a side event to the Human Rights Council session in Geneva. The ICAED forms the next phase in the international cooperation of all those working towards better protection from enforced disappearances. The Latin American federation of family member organisations FEDEFAM debated the possible project of a convention already in their 1982 congres in Lima. In that same year several eminent lawyers, such ad Eduardo Novoa Monreal of Chile and Alfredo Galletti of Argentina, drafted the first text for a Convention against enforced disapparances.
During the negotiations for the convention from 2001 to 2003 in Geneva in the 'Open ended working group to draft a legally binding instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance' family members of disappeared from all continents and international human rights NGOs such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, ICJ and FIDH cooperated on an ad hoc basis to convince UN member States to adopt the stronget possible text.
After the adoption of the text by this working group on September 23 2005 and later the adoption of the General Assembly the attention shifted from the level of the United Nations to the national level. Ratification by all governments was the next phase. Because of the ambiguous position of some governments towards the convention the ICAED was founded to organise an international campaign for the convention.
By July 2008 the ICAED has more than 30 member organisations that come from all around the world.
References
* [http://naviny.by/rubrics/inter/2008/07/07/ic_news_259_293288/ Free Theater premiers play about Iryna and Anatol Krasowski]
* [http://www.amnesty.org/en/enforced-disappearances Enforced disappearances - Amnesty International]
* [http://www.enforceddisappearances.org Enforced Disappearances Information Exchange Center]
External links
* [http://www.icaed.org Official site ICAED]
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