Amnesty International, Canada, August 30th, 2017
The Day of the Disappeared is a somber reminder that every year thousands of people are subjected to what is known legally as “enforced disappearance”. The legal term may be clunky, but the human story is simple: People literally disappear from their loved ones and their community when state officials – or others acting with state consent – grab them from the street or from their homes and then deny it, or refuse to say where they are. It is a crime under international law. More than 75,000 people have vanished or have been forcibly disappeared in Syria since 2011.
