Submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances: And the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances

Submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances: And the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances

Citizen Lab researchers have co-authored two submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.  One submission focuses on digital tools that enable disappearances, calling on host states to protect against rights violations caused by digital transnational repression. The authors argue  that enforced disappearances have been facilitated by the use of targeted surveillance tech…

UNPO highlights the Use of Enforced Disappearances as a Tool of Transnational Repression in Submission to the WGEID and CED

The UNPO has submitted written information to both the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) and the Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED). The input highlights the issue of enforced disappearances within the framework of transnational repression. Furthermore, it emphasises the disproportionate effect of these practices on unrepresented nations and peoples, whose vulnerability is exacerbated by the denial of their…