Irina Krasovskaya is attending ICAED event in Geneva

23/03/2014

The 2nd International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearance (ICAED) General Membership Meeting is set to take place March 24 – 27 in Geneva, Switzerland. We Remember founder Irina Krasovskaya is attending the event.

On March 24 the International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearance presents a public event Towards Common Goal for the Universal Ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances. The public event will commence the 2nd ICAED General Membership Meeting and enjoins different human rights organizations and UN special bodies working on enforced disappearance to step up the campaign for the universal ratification of the Convention Against Disappearances.

The International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances was founded in 2007 with the goal to lobby ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. We Remember was one of the founding organizations. Since then We Remember is a member of the Steering Committee of the ICAED, along with Amnesty International (AI); Asian Federation Against involuntary Disappearances (AFAD); Collectif des Families De Disparus en Algerie (CFDA); FEDEFAM; FEMED; Federation Internationale de l’ACAT/ International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT); Federation Internationale des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH); Human Rights Watch (HRW); International Committee for Justice (ICJ). At the moment ICAED counts 51 members.