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Entry into force of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

December 22, 2010
Japanese

  1. On December 23 (Thu), the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance will enter into force. (The Government of Japan signed the Convention on February 2007 and deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations the Instrument of Ratification of the Convention on July 2009.)

  2. This Convention prescribes enforced disappearance including abduction as crime. It also provides for the necessary measures to be taken by States Parties in order to ensure a framework for punishment and for prevention.

  3. The significance of this Convention is to confirm enforced disappearance including abduction in the international community as punishable offence, and to deter offence of this nature from being repeated in the future. Japan attaches importance to this Convention from the viewpoint of increasing interest of the international community in enforced disappearance including abduction and welcomes its entry into force. 

 

(Reference) States Parties that have ratified or acceded to this Convention (as of December 21): 21 countries (Albania, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Honduras, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Paraguay, Senegal, Spain, Uruguay,)
Signatories (as of December 21): 87 countries

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