18.12.1992|Other|UN Resolution
Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances
The declaration states, inter alia, that a state shall not allow, in any situation, enforced disappearance, and defines such action as a criminal offense; that a person whose freedom is taken from him shall be held in a declared detention facility; that information on his detention and on the place where he is being held shall be provided to his relatives or attorney; that the detention of all detainees in the country shall be monitored, and that relevant information on the detention shall be provided to all appropriate persons. From the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library website.
