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Pak along with world observes International Day of disappeared
KARACHI: Pakistan along with the world Friday observing International Day of the disappeared to draw attention of the fate of missing persons illegally imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives.
The impulse for the day came from the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared (Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos, or FEDEFAM), a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 in Costa Rica as an association of local and regional groups actively working against secret imprisonment and forced disappearances in a number of Latin-American countries.
Work on secret imprisonment is an important part of the activities for a number of international bodies and organizations in the fields of human rights activism and humanitarian aid, including for example Amnesty International (AI), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
The International Day of the Disappeared is an opportunity to join our voice against the inhuman detentions of the persons going missing, while their relatives suffer the agony of searching them in vain.
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