Juan Pablo Albán Alencastro is Rapporteur, Committee on Enforced Disappearances, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The Other Victims of Enforced Disappearance
Aside from the legal debate on the concept of the victim in an enforced disappearance and the lack of political will in many situations to fulfil victims’ rights, it is indisputable that the next of kin of the disappeared suffer as much and sometimes more than those who are no longer present.