General Comment on enforced disappearance as a crime against humanity

Key Judgment

Legal Relevance

Keywords: Crimes Against Humanity

Themes: Related Crimes

The General Comment explains situations and circumstances when acts of enforced disappearance amount to crimes against humanity. In doing so, the Working Group relies on various provisions under the international law and case law of the international criminal and hybrid tribunals. Provisions of the Declaration and specifically, claims of enforced disappearance as a crime against humanity are assessed though criteria listed in the Article 7 of the Rome Statute.