Guterres calls for end to 'atrocious crime' of enforced disappearances

By UN News

Aug 30, 2023 8:43 am

UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked Wednesday's International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance by condemning the 'atrocious crime' and urging all Member States to hold those who perpetrate it accountable.

Enforced disappearance has regularly been used as a tool for instilling fear and exert control over a population. The feeling of insecurity it generates is not limited to close relatives of the disappeared, but also their communities and society as a whole.

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked Wednesday's International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance by condemning the 'atrocious crime' and urging all Member States to hold those who perpetrate it accountable.

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