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Enforced Disappearances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2025

Edited by
Grażyna Baranowska  and
Milica Kolaković-Bojović
Grażyna Baranowska
Affiliation:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Milica Kolaković-Bojović
Affiliation:
Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade

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Enforced Disappearances
On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon
 , pp. i - ii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Enforced Disappearances

Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon discusses the UN human rights (both treaty bodies and special procedures) response to the key challenges of missing persons and enforced disappearances, including reparations, family rights, involvement of non-state actors and the migration context. The book also includes several illustrative case studies from Latin America, Africa, Mexico, Western Balkans and the Asia-Pacific region, which demonstrate the current challenges and problems relating to enforced disappearances in domestic or regional settings. The book includes contributions from experts working across a global range of jurisdictions. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Grażyna Baranowska is a professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and vice-chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. Previously, she was a senior researcher at the Hertie School and assistant professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her first book, Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons (2021), examined how international bodies in Europe address the needs of the families of forcibly disappeared persons.

Milica Kolaković-Bojović is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade, and the vice-president of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Her research interests and fields of expertise are focused on criminal justice, justice system reform, human rights and harmonization with international standards. Since 2021, she is also a member of the ICC Advisory Committee on nomination of judges of the International Criminal Court.

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