Enforced disappearance

movement of Argentine mothers who campaigned for their children who had been "disappeared"

armed group that conducts extrajudicial killings

suppression of the Islamic Revolution and killing of thousands of civilians in Hama, Syria, 1982

1982 film directed by Costa-Gavras

unlawful secret disappearance

1985 film by Luis Puenzo

Argentine human rights organization

International observance, 30 August

treaty of the United Nations

classified program during the latter stages of the Vietnam War

abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea from 1977-83

human rights violation

massacre of Mayan civilians during the Guatemalan military government's counterinsurgency operations (1960–1996)

2002 film by Christopher Hampton

kidnappings and forced disappearances

human rights association in Turkey

documents referring to victims of torture and murder during Operation Condor

Korean abduction

children abducted from Republican parents by Nationalist troops, during the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Spain

victim of kidnapings, usually in clandestine centers of detention and torture and following crime of forced disappearance in the dictatorships of Operation Condor

illegitimate punishment carried out outside the ordinary legal system

1993 film by Lita Stantic

person held in detention whose identity has been hidden

massacre of civilians by the Peruvian military

right for victims to know what happened

Shuanggui was an internal disciplinary process conducted by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – and its lower-level affiliates – on CCP members who are suspected of "violations of discipline," a charge which usually refers to corruption but can occasionally carry other connotations as well. The Shuanggui process was conducted in secret, in a system which is separate from ordinary Chinese law enforcement. Generally, subjects were isolated from any form of legal counsel or even family visits during the process. Some journalists main

HIJOS is a recursive acronym for Hijas e Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio (English: Daughters and Sons for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence). It is the name of two organizations founded by children of people who were forcibly "disappeared" by military dictatorships in Argentina and Guatemala. The Argentine organization was founded in 1995 in the town of Río Ceballos, north of Córdoba, by activists from different parts of the country. The Guatemalan organization, founded in 1999 and based in Guatemala City, has received many death threats