Interested stakeholders are currently invited to participate in the consultation process on the General Comment and submit written contribution until 20 June 2022.
Grażyna Baranowska, who leads a Marie Curie research project on missing migrants at Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights, participated in the drafting of the concept note of the first General Comment on “Enforced Disappearances in the context of migration”. The concept note was adopted by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances in April 2022.
The concept note outlines the issues, objectives and possible scope of the General Comment and addresses the obligation of states to investigate enforced disappearances, prohibition of secret detention of migrants, mutual legal assistance and cooperation, non-refoulement, pushbacks and victims rights. It aims to clarify possible legal uncertainties arising from the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED), as well as to assist State parties in discharging their obligations as best as possible.
All interested stakeholders, such as States parties, victims, civil society organizations, national human rights institutions, UN Human Rights Mechanisms, Regional Human Rights Mechanisms, UN country Teams, are invited to take part the consultation process on the General Comment by submitting a written contributions by 20 June 2022.
For more information on the relevance of the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances for disappeared migrants and refugees, see Dr Baranowska’s study published in 2020 by the German Institute for Human Rights here.
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Grażyna Baranowska, Senior Researcher, Centre for Fundamental Rights