PART II ABSOLUTE PROHIBITIONS, 8 PROHIBITION OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES

Enforced disappearance does not appear as such in the general human rights treaties, namely, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) or the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), although, as we shall see below, the elements of what is generally understood as comprising this phenomenon certainly fall foul of human rights requirements. The definition most commonly referred to now is that found in the International Convention for...