Ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED): A toolkit

Geneva: OHCHR, 2024

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The 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrated in 2023 is an occasion to renew the ground-breaking commitments made by States when they adopted the text in 1948. The Declaration has inspired the norms and standards that are embodied in the core human rights treaties and their optional protocols. These instruments aim to realize the rights contained in the Declaration, by making human rights universal legal entitlements with legally binding obligations for States. Ratifying these instruments is an essential means to translating the human rights enshrined in the Declaration into reality on the ground, while conveying a message of commitment to human rights to the international community. Human Rights 75 is an initiative led by UN Human Rights and its partners. It seeks, among others, to promote universality and renewed commitment, including through a campaign advocating for the ratification of the core human rights treaties and their optional protocols. In this context, States are called upon to demonstrate their commitment to the protection and respect of human rights by ratifying outstanding human rights instruments. This toolkit presents the benefits of ratifying the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED), answers questions on its content and application, provides a simplified version of the provisions of the Convention and provides practical information on ratification and accession of treaties.

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