On Wednesday March 3, 2021, we were lucky enough to be able to take part in a conference on Enforced Disappearances alongside numerous experts, organizations and diplomats. The aim of the conference was to share experiences of action taken, and to discuss the way forward in promoting ratification of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.

The guests at the conference were

• Mohammed Ayat, CED Chairman;
• Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights;
• Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Vice-President of Argentina;
• Olivier de Frouville, CED member;
• Alejandro Encinas, Mexico's Undersecretary for Human Rights;
• Elin Widsteen, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs;
• Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Senior Advisor to the Government of Sudan;
• Bernard Duhaime, WGEID member;
• Horacio Ravenna, CED vice-president;
• Mary Aileen Bacalso, President of ICAED;
• Jasminka Dzumhur, Ombudgsperson (Bosnia-Herzegovina) ;
• Wadih Al Asmar, President of CLDH;
• Mugiyanto, former president of IKOHI;
• Grace Fernandez, Movimiento por Nuestro Desparecidos en Mexico;
• Luciano Hazan, WGEID member;
• Alice Edwards, Secretariat, Secretariat Convention Against Torture Initiative ;
• Milica Kolakovic-Bojovic, CED member;
• Gabriella Citroni, Legal Advisor TRIAL international ;
• François Rivasseau, French Ambassador to the UN (Geneva) ;
• Representing us is Ahmed El Gasir from Human Rights Solidarity, a FEMED member.