ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of enforced disappearance has long been held to violate a range of human rights.1 The Organisation of American States adopted a regional treaty specifically directed against disappearances in 1994.2 Yet no treaty of global application purported to deal with enforced disappearances as a discrete legal concept on a comprehensive basis, prior to the adoption by the UN General Assembly in 2006 of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.3
