Introduction to the rights and needs of families of disappeared persons -- The European court of human rights and disappeared persons: broadening in substantiating claims and narrowing down through application of temporal competences -- The UN human rights committee and disappeared persons: approaches to the right to life -- International judicial bodies established in response to conflicts in the former Yugoslavia: addressing mass disappearances -- Searching for and exhuming disappeared persons: international non-judicial mechanisms -- Conclusion: addressing rights and needs of families of disappeared person in Europe.
Summary:
This book examines how international judicial and non-judicial bodies in Europe address the needs of the families of forcibly disappeared persons. The needs in question are returning the remains of disappeared persons; the right to truth; the acceptance of responsibility by states; and the right to compensation. These have been identified as the four most commonly shared basic and fundamental needs of families in which an adult was disappeared many years previously and is now assumed to be dead, which is representative of the situation of the vast majority of families of disappeared persons in Europe.00The families of disappeared persons have an increasing number of international mechanisms through which they can attempt to address their needs. The proliferation of such mechanisms gives victims of enforced disappearance in Europe access to many different international procedures. At the same time, however, a functional analysis of the specific organs involved has shown that they respond to the needs of families to varying degrees. This results from the differences in their competences as well as those in their jurisprudence.
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