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

Ratko Mladic pinned down by international criminal justice, a step forward against impunity for families of the disappeared. The Euro-Mediterranean Federation Against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) welcomes the extradition of Ratko Mladic to The Hague, home of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He is to answer for war crimes and... Continue reading SERBIA: Extradition of Ratko Mladic

To denounce the abusive price increases imposed by the government on basic foodstuffs, the two main trade union centers, the CDT and the UMT, called a general strike, which was followed throughout Morocco.The government's response to this legitimate demand was bloody repression of the demonstrators: almost 1,000 people died... Continue reading MOROCCO - June 20, 1981-June 20, 2011: Commemoration of the massacre and arbitrary disappearance of citizens

Daniel Saoud, President of the Committee for the Defense of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights (CDF), the Syrian member association of FEMED, has once again been prevented from leaving Syrian territory. He was due to travel to Cairo (Egypt) from June 24 to 26, 2011, at the invitation of the Executive Committee of the... Continue reading SYRIA: An open-air prison for human rights defenders.

After joining the International Criminal Court, on June 29, 2011 Tunisia became the first North African country to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The Euro-Mediterranean Federation Against Enforced Disappearances (FEMED) welcomes this new step in the strengthening of... Continue reading TUNISIA ratifies the Convention against Enforced Disappearances, an important step in the fight against impunity