Contact: Nassera Dutour, CFDA Spokesperson, FEMED President and Board Member
Mail: cfda@disparus-algerie.org
Website: www.algerie-disparus.org
Over the past decade, following the cessation of the electoral process in Algeria in 1992, it is estimated that more than 10,000 people have disappeared at the hands of state agents. The Collectif des Familles des Disparu(e)s en Algérie (CFDA) was created in Paris in May 1998, under the impetus of a few mothers of the disappeared. At the same time, the first files on disappearances from Algeria and France were sent to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. The CFDA has always called for the establishment of an independent commission to carry out investigations, establish responsibilities and draw up a national policy of reparation, rehabilitation and compensation for victims, their families and society as a whole.