The Right not to be Subjected to Enforced Disappearance: Finding Nemo in the International Human Rights Regime

Abstract

The right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance, introduced by the 2007 Convention on Disappearances poses theoretical and doctrinal questions to the established system of human rights protection. human rights system of protection. Although the legal affirmation of the right was long awaited, so far there is little attention to its systemic incorporation in the international human rights regime. This article attempts to categorize the right both on a taxonomic and on a content-based approach. It also explores the dignitarian and political aspects of the right, arguing that enforced disappearance is a severe violation of human dignity, and tests human rights subjectivity.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n10p106