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(Geneva, August 13, 2018) – On August 9, 2018, Alkarama requested the intervention of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) in the case of Layth Al Janabi, an Iraqi refugee in Syria who remains missing since he was arrested and forcibly disappeared by the Syrian authorities in 2012.

(Geneva, July 5, 2018) – Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians have submitted five cases of enforced disappearances in Syria to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), requesting that the UN experts promptly intervene with the Syrian authorities to ensure the individuals’ immediate release.

His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations

 

H.E. Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

 

H.E. Mr. Vojislav Šuc

President of the Human Rights Council

 

Permanent Representatives of Member States and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council

 

26 June 2018

 

Your Excellencies,

Syria
Our concerns
  • Serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law and devastating effects of the armed conflict on the civilian population;
  • Systematic and widespread practice of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions in detention;
  • Impunity of perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity;
  • Arbitrary detention in inhuman conditions of tens of thousands of civilians in camps, including families of former ISIL combatants.

 

Human Rights Instruments
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
ICCPR Ratified ?
ICCPR Ratification Date
Individual Complaint procedure with the Human Rights committee (ICCPR Optional protocol 1) Ratified ?
Second Optional Protocol of ICCPR (abolition of death penalty) ratified ?
Date last Concluding Observations by Human Rights Committee
Next Human Rights Committee State Report due
OVERDUE - State party did not submit report on time
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (UNCAT)
UNCAT Ratified ?
UNCAT Ratification Date
OPCAT (National Preventive Mechanism) Ratified ?
National Preventive Mechanism (OPCAT) created ?
UNCAT Art 20 (confidential inquiries) ratified ?
UNCAT Art 22 (Individual Complaint procedure) Ratified ?
Date of last Concluding Observations by Committee against Torture (CAT)
Next CAT State Report Due
OVERDUE - State party did not submit report on time
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED)
ICPPED Ratified ?
Human Rights Council
Date last Universal Period Review (UPR)
UPR Next Review

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