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The United Nations issued a wake-up call to all the countries of the world, urging them to “continue to act urgently to prevent and investigate enforced disappearances during the covid-19 pandemic, and the search for the victims must continue without delay.”
The representatives of the Committee against Enforced Disappearance and the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances They expressed that today they are “alarmed by the reports of forced disappearances received in the context of the pandemic. This situation is even more worrying given the frequency with which the search and investigation of forced disappearances are being suspended due to the restrictions adopted. as a result of the pandemic. “
On the eve of commemorating this Sunday the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the agency warned in its statement that “victims are often forgotten and families suffer, without knowing anything about the fate of their missing loved ones. The search and investigation are continuous obligations that must be carried out without delay, taking the necessary precautions necessary health “.
16 thousand people without a trace in Chile
According to the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/133, of December 18, 1992, as a set of principles that must be applied by all States, forced disappearances occur in the following situations:
“People are arrested, detained or transferred against their will, or that they are deprived of their freedom in any other way by government agents of any sector or level, by organized groups or by individuals who act on behalf of the Government or with its direct or indirect support, their authorization or their assent, and that they then refuse to reveal the fate or whereabouts of these persons or to acknowledge that they are deprived of their liberty, thus removing them from the protection of the law “.
According to official figures, in Chile more than two people are lost every day. 93% appear within a few hours, but there is 7% who do not. There are currently 16,000 people whose whereabouts are still unknown.
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