Since it was established by the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1980, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has received over 57,000 cases attributed to government forces from 108 countries. Of the 786 “desaparecidos” reported in the Philippines, 131 have been found alive, including 19 in detention, and 30 found dead. That leaves 625 cases from 1975 to 2012 outstanding in the records of the Working Group as of 2018. The Working Group’s definition of
Since it was established by the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1980, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has received over 57,000 cases attributed to government forces from 108 countries. Of the 786 “desaparecidos” reported in the Philippines, 131 have been found alive, including 19 in detention, and
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