Essay: How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, 50 years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
In an in-depth article, BRAD EVANS, co-director of the co-directed the State of Disappearance project, says, in an article first published on The Conversation, that Pinochet’s rise to power marked the start of the modern era of disappearance as a political and organised crime technique…
UN urges North Korea to confirm fate of forcibly disappeared people
Seoul, South KoreaReuters The United Nations Human Rights office in Seoul called on North Korea on Tuesday to confirm the fate and whereabouts of people who have been disappeared under its regime, accusing Pyongyang of violating the rights of the victims and their loved ones for decades. In a report on enforced disappearance and abductions […]
Painstaking work: Armed with new tech, families track down Mexico’s missing
From social media to online legal templates, Mexican families are using tech to search for missing relatives and pressure officials into action. DIANA BAPTISTA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
In Mexico, families and activists urge more work to end disappearances
Mexico City Reuters Families of missing persons and human rights groups in Mexico called on Tuesday’s International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearances for stronger measures to fight kidnappings, including bringing more perpetrators to justice. Progress on one of Mexico’s most notorious cases of forced kidnappings appeared to play out earlier this month as a […]
Mexican armed forces knew about attack on 43 students, report says
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexico’s armed forces knew that 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 were being kidnapped by criminals, then hid evidence that could have helped locate them, according to a report released Monday by special investigation. Evidence obtained by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), an independent panel tasked with investigating the […]
Mexican Navy offers rare apology over missing people in border town
Nuevo Laredo, MexicoReuters The Mexican Navy offered a rare public apology on Tuesday for its potential role in the abductions of dozens of people who went missing from a northern border town in 2018 during operations against drug cartels. As many as 40 people disappeared between February and May of 2018 in Nuevo Laredo, across […]