A/RES/47/133
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Bearing in mind that, while the acts which comprise enforced
disappearance constitute a violation of the prohibitions found in the
aforementioned international instruments,
it is none the less important to
devise an instrument which characterizes all acts of enforced disappearance
persons
and
as
prevent
from
very
serious
their
offencesand
sets
commission,
forth
standards
1.
Proclaims the present Declaration on the
Enforced Disappearance,
as a body of principles
2.
generally
Urges
known
that
and
all
efforts
be
respected;
made
so
Article
1.
Any
act
of
enforced
that
designed
to
punish
Protection of All
for all States;
the
Declaration
of
Persons
becomes
i
disappearance
is
an
offence
to
human
dignity.
It is condemned as a denial of the purposes of the Charter of the United
Nations and as a grave and flagrant violation of the human rights and
fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
field.
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and
reaffirmed
and
developed
in
international
instruments
in
this
2.
Any act of enforced disappearance places the persons subjected
thereto outside the protection of the law and inflicts severe suffering on
them and their families.
It constitutes a violation of the rules of
international law guaranteeing,
inter alia, the right to recognition as a
person before the law, the right to liberty and security of the person and the
right not to be subjected to torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment.
It also violates or constitutes a grave threat to
the right to life.
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1.
No State
disappearances.
shall
practise,
permit
or
tolerate
enforced
2.
States shall act at the national and regional levels and in
cooperation with the United Nations to contribute by all means to the
prevention and eradication of enforced disappearance.
Article
other
Each
State
measures
territory
under
to
shall
take
prevent
its
effective
and
terminate
jurisdiction.
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legislative,
acts
Article
of
administrative,
enforced
judicial
disappearance
in
or
any
4
1.
All acts of enforced disappearance shall be offences under
criminal law punishable by appropriate penalties which shall take into
their extreme seriousness.
account
2.
Mitigating circumstances may be established in national
legislation for persons who, having participated in enforced disappearances,
are instrumental in bringing the victims forward alive or in providing
voluntarily information which would contribute to clarifying cases of enforced