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International Day of the Disappeared 2009, August 30

by Tina Kells | August 28, 2009 at 06:50 pm

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Every August 30 human rights groups draw awareness to the world's missing and secretly imprisoned International Day of the Disappeared. International Day of the Disappeared 2009 people, usually political prisoners, with marks the 26th year the day will be observed with planned events across the globe.

According to the International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances there will be formal activities in 10 nations and the UN will be sponsoring an awareness drive. Amnesty International will also be hosting events around the world. The various International Day of the Disappeared activities will happen on August 29 and August 30 2009.

The countries and entities with formally planned events to mark International Day of the Disappeared are:

Amnesty International
The United Nations

Asia/Philippines
The Netherlands
Argentina
Cyprus/Greece
France
Iraq
Spain
Belarus
Sri Lanka
Peru
Switzerland

Learn more about International Day of the Disappeared 2009 and what you can do to make your voice heard in the fight to free the secretly imprisoned throughout the world.

Read the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

All around the world, families are waiting to find out what happened to those loved ones who have been taken away from them by agents of the state or by people acting with its support or acquiescence.

Friends and relatives have no means to find out what has happened to them. The disappeared are beyond the protection of the law. Anything could happen to them. Many are tortured. Many are killed.

Sunday 30 August marks the 26th International Day of the Disappeared. Every year, Amnesty International, along with other NGOs, families associations and grassroots groups, remembers the disappeared and demands justice for victims of enforced disappearances through activities and events.