A/RES/47/133
Page
Convention
on
Diplomatic
Relations.
7
10/
4.
The persons presumed responsible for such acts shall be guaranteed
fair treatment in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant international agreements in
force at all stages of the investigation and eventual prosecution and trial.
Article
17
1.
Acts constituting enforced disappearance shall be considered a
continuing offence as long as the perpetrators continue to conceal the fate
and the whereabouts of persons who have disappeared and these facts remain
unclarified.
2.
When the remedies provided for in article 2 of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 4/ are no longer effective,
the statute
of limitations relating to acts of enforced disappearance shall be suspended
until these remedies are re-established.
3.
Statutes of limitations, where they
enforced disappearance shall be substantial and
seriousness of the offence.
Article
exist, relating to acts of
commensurate with the extreme
18
1.
Persons who have or are alleged to have committed offences
referred to in article 4, paragraph 1, above, shall not benefit from any
special amnesty law or similar measures that might have the effect of
exempting them from any criminal proceedings or sanction.
acts
2.
In the exercise of
of enforced disappearance
the right of pardon, the extreme
shall be taken into account.
Article
seriousness
of
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The victims of acts of enforced disappearance and their family shall
obtain redress and shall have the right to adequate compensation,
including
the means for as complete a rehabilitation as possible.
In the event of the
death
of
dependants
parents
1.
the
victim
shall
as
also
States
subjected
a
be
shall
to
result
of
entitled
prevent
enforced
an
act
of
Article
20
to
and
enforced
compensation.
suppress
disappearance
the
and
of
disappearance,
abduction
children
of
their
children
born
during
of
their
mother’s enforced disappearance,
and shall devote their efforts to the search
for and identification of such children and to the restitution of the children
to their families of origin.
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United
Nations,
Treaty
Series,
vol.
500,
No.
7310.