Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors the implementation of the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearance by the States parties.
Specifically, its responsibilities include:
- Examining reports from States parties, and making recommendations on the topic of enforced disappearances in that State (article 29 of the Convention).
- Registering requests for urgent action (article 30 of the Convention).
- Receiving individual complaints from victims of a violation of the Convention by a State party (article 31 of the Convention).
- Receiving communications in which a State party claims that another State party is not fulfilling its obligations under the Convention; so-called inter-state communications (article 32 of the Convention).
The Committee meets in Geneva and holds two sessions per year.
For more information about the work of the Committee, read the Committee on Enforced Disappearances Fact sheet.
Contact information
Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Palais Wilson - 52, rue des Pâquis
CH-1201 Geneva (Switzerland)
Email: ohchr-ced@un.org
Twitter: @UNTreatyBodies
For Urgent Actions:
CED secretariat
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10 (Switzerland)
Email: ohchr-ced-ua@un.org
For individual complaints:
Petitions Section
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Email: ohchr-petitions@un.org
