In a significant break with the past in Morocco and Western Sahara, King Mohamed VI established the Equity and Reconciliation Commission in 2003 to investigate ...
All around the world, families wait to find out what happened to those loved ones who have been taken away from them by agents of the state or by people acting ...
Up to 200000 people were killed during Algerian internal conflict in the 1990s. Thousands of people were victims of enforced disappearance, torture and sexual assault ...
Governments use enforced disappearance as a tool of repression tosilence dissent and eliminate political opposition, as well as topersecute ethnic, religious and ...
Those seeking justice for a murdered environmental activist in Cabañas department, El Salvador, are at risk. Another anti-mining activist has also been shot, and ...
US Attorney General Eric Holder hasordered a "preliminary review" into the secret detention programme operated by the CIA afterthe attacks of 11 September 2001. ...