News 2016

“Last March I published an Issue Paper on Missing persons and victims of enforced disappearance in Europe, aiming to help Council of Europe member states improve their law and practice. Much remains to be done, considering that thousands of cases of missing persons and enforced disappearance remain unresolved in Europe, perpetuating the suffering of their loved ones, which is passed on from one generation to another. Addressing these questions is often dependent on governments’ political agendas, which explains the slow progress made so far. As I learned last June at a roundtable I organised in Strasbourg with a group of human rights defenders active on these issues, they face a number of serious obstacles to their work.” says Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner of Human Rights, in his latest Human rights Comment published today. (more...)