The 1980 U.N. Commission on Human Rights and the Disappeared

Authors

David Kramer
David Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law SchoolFollow

Publication

Human Rights Quarterly

Volume

3

Page

18

Year

1981

Abstract

When the public debate began at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the question of disappeared persons, the atmosphere in the huge assembly hall was tense and expectant. The public gallery was jammed with the wives and families of those persons who had been "disappeared"- arrested, tortured, imprisoned, or possibly killed by governments which refused to admit any knowledge or responsibility. The concerned audience came from all over the world. A few had even been disappeared themselves, but had managed to escape.

Comments

Copyright © 1981 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Human Rights Quarterly Journal, 3:1 (1981), 18-33. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Recommended Citation

David Kramer and David Weissbrodt, The 1980 U.N. Commission on Human Rights and the Disappeared, 3 Hum. Rts. Q. 18 (1981), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/403.