On July 16, 1985, the Working Commission on Involuntary Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights arrived in Lima. This visit took place in a context where Amnesty International had distributed a communiqué in January of that year stating that more than a thousand people had disappeared …
At the invitation of the Peruvian government, a delegation from the United Nations Inter-American Commission on Human Rights arrived in Lima. The purpose of the visit was to investigate cases of human rights violations in the country. Among the specific cases to be investigated was that of 82 teachers who …
On December 18, 1992, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by resolution 47/133 the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. This Declaration reinforced the character of enforced disappearance as an international crime, establishing that it constitutes a violation of the norms of international law guaranteeing fundamental …
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a report on its mission to Peru, evaluating the situation of detentions and anti-terrorist legislation. The report noted that the crime of treason as a crime in law has nothing to do with terrorism, calling it an obvious abuse of language …
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