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Article: Working Group on Disappearances to meet in New York from 30 April to 4 May.
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- May 1, 2001
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M2 PRESSWIRE-1 May 2001-UN: Working Group on Disappearances to meet in New York from 30 April to 4 May (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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From 30 April to 4 May, the group of experts charged by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights with ensuring that involuntary disappearances are investigated will meet at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances was established in 1980, and was the first of the thematic extra-conventional mechanisms created by the Commission on Human Rights.
Its mandate is to act as a channel of communication between families ...