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Morocco/Western Sahara: No more half measures: Addressing enforced ...
28 August 2009

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 ...

Report       MDE 29/005/2009

Remembering the world's disappeared in 2009 | Amnesty ...
28 August 2009

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 ...

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Algeria: Legacy of impunity threatens future
28 August 2009

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 ...

Document       MDE 28/003/2009

2009 International Day of the Disappeared – a new Convention ...
28 August 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 28 August 2009. AI Index: IOR 51/003/2009. 2009 International Day of the Disappeared – a ...

Document       IOR 51/003/2009

Seven more ratifications needed for Enforced Disappearance ...
28 August 2009

Governments use enforced disappearance as a tool of repression tosilence dissent and eliminate political opposition, as well as topersecute ethnic, religious and ...

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El Salvador: Death threats for activists demanding justice
27 August 2009

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 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 29/001/2009

CIA detention programme: Criminal investigations long overdue ...
27 August 2009

US Attorney General Eric Holder hasordered a "preliminary review" into the secret detention programme operated by the CIA afterthe attacks of 11 September 2001. ...

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Russian Federation: Five men in Russian Federation abducted
26 August 2009

On 23 August, five men were abducted in the republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation. The whereabouts of three of the men remains unknown.

Urgent Action       EUR 46/019/2009

No más desapariciones forzadas en Eurpoa y Asia Central
25 August 2009

No más desapariciones forzadas en Eurpoa y Asia Central

Document       EUR 01/009/2009

África: No más desapariciones forzadas en África
25 August 2009

África: No más desapariciones forzadas en África

Document       AFR 01/001/2009