Maghreb-Europe regional seminar at the Museum of the History of Catalonia on The preservation of historical memory. Barcelona Session I: 10am - 1:30pm Chairman, Manuel Perona. 10:15am - 10:30am: Enforced disappearances in the Mediterranean Nassera Dutour, President of the Euro-Mediterranean Federation Against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) 10:30am - 10:45am: Amnesty laws and the... Continue reading Maghreb-Europe regional seminar

Nassera Dutour receives the Oscar Romero Human Rights Award. Nassera Dutour, mother of the disappeared, founding member and spokesperson for the Collectif des familles de disparus en Algérie (CFDA), received the Oscar Romero Human Rights Award from the Rothko Chapel in Houston, USA, on Sunday November 13, 2011. The Oscar Romero... Continue reading ALGERIA: Nassera Dutour receives the Oscar Romero Human Rights Award

Two more flames extinguished, two mothers of the disappeared leave us forever! It is with immense sadness that SOS Disparus and the Collectif des Familles de Disparus (CFDA) have learned once again of the death of two mothers, Sbaâ Fatma, mother of the disappeared Bouderhem Djelloul, born on June 30, 1970, arrested on... Continue reading ALGERIA: Two more flames go out, two mothers of the disappeared leave us forever!

Spain in the dock instead of Judge Garzon? ICAED demands that investigations into enforced disappearances during the Spanish Civil War and Franco's regime should no longer be blocked. ICAED also calls for reparation to be made to the victims, and for the 1977 amnesty law to be repealed. ... Continue reading Spain in the dock instead of Judge Garzon?

International Missing Persons Day was marked once again this year by the anguish and grief of family members of missing persons. This Wednesday, April 27, was marked by various activities, 12 years after the end of the war in Kosovo. The fate of 1,821 people is still unknown. The... Continue reading KOSOVO: International Missing Persons Day

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the Euro-Mediterranean Federation Against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) and the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS) express their deepest concern at the indiscriminate repression characterized by the Syrian authorities' systematic use of arbitrary arrests, detentions and disappearances... Continue reading SYRIA: Stop arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances!

The Euro-Mediterranean Federation against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) requests your urgent intervention regarding the following situation in Egypt: Circumstances of the disappearance: FEMED has been informed by Sebah Abd El Fatah Mohammed of the disappearance of Mohammed Seddiq Tawfiq, son of Sebah Abd El Fatah Mohammed. According to information received,... Continue reading EGYPT: Urgent appeal: Disappearance of Mohammed Seddiq

In Paris on May 20, 2011. The rally held on May 15, 2011 on the call of the February 20 movement and with the participation of associations of families of the disappeared in front of the Temara secret detention center was severely repressed. On May 15, 2011, the February 20... Continue reading MOROCCO: A demonstration by families of the disappeared repressed in Morocco

Reminder of the circumstances of the disappearance: FEMED has been informed by the family of Khaled Sid Mohand of the disappearance of Khaled Sid Mohand. According to the information received, Khaled Sid Mohand, of Algerian nationality, journalist by profession, residing in Damascus, Syria, was arrested at his home in Damascus by the... Continue reading URGENT CALL: Disappearance of Khaled Sid Mohand.

For the seventh time, the UN Human Rights Committee has condemned Algeria for enforced disappearance during the black decade. With the entry into force of the International Convention on Enforced Disappearances, the noose has tightened around the Algerian state, which has forbidden the families of the disappeared from taking any legal action or searching for the... Continue reading ALGERIA: UN condemns Algeria