The practice of enforced disappearances is widespread, though hard to quantify, in Africa. A proposed new UN body could help countries on the continent.
The UN Secretary General and OHCHR will soon release a feasibility study on the creation of a unified, international mechanism to search for Syria’s hundreds of thousands of missing and forcibly disappeared people something family members and survivors have spent years fighting for.
In landmark trial, victim speaks of Assad regime's threat of forced disappearance in Syria: "I will hide you behind sun where blue flies dare not stray."