AFAD 25 Years Video Teaser

This AFAD video teaser is an opening salvo of the yearlong campaign and fight Against Enforced Disappearances and for the Protection, not Persecution, of Human Rights Defenders, across Asia.

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What's Happening

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) commemorates the struggles of women in the face of the continuing crime of enforced disappearances. AFAD pays a tribute to the unshakable resolve of women to search for truth about and justice for their disappeared family members. As per UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances General Comment on Women, women are victimized by virtue of their being family members of the disappeared and also by being disappeared themselves. 

The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) expresses serious concerns over the proposal of the government of the Philippines to delist 625 cases from 1975 to 2012 of enforced or involuntary disappearances from the records of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID).

The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) expresses serious concerns over the proposal of the government of the Philippines to delist 625 cases from 1975 to 2012 of enforced or involuntary disappearances from the records of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID).

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“To ensure that the elections meet international standards, the police and election commission should not appear to be acting like extensions of the ruling party,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The violence during the campaign that has mainly targeted the opposition bears out their misgivings about unfair treatment.”

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