Migrants as Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Kolaković-Bojović, Milica and Baranowska, Grazyna (2024) Migrants as Victims of Enforced Disappearances. In: International scientific thematic conference The Position of Victims in the Republic of Serbia, Palić, 12-13 June 2024. Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade, pp. 63-74. ISBN 978-86-80756-66-0

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Abstract

Triggered by various factors, migrations change people’s destinies, social, economic, and cultural fibre and patterns of the states and regions, but also the geo-political map of the world. In their attempts to find a better life conditions or environment, migrants are frequently faced with insecurity, serious human rights violation and violence, including exposure and additional vulnerability to be subjected to smuggling and traffcking and other forms of exploitation. Rigid migration policies of States such as refusal of entry, pushbacks often accompanied by violence, expulsion or detention, and the increasingly perilous journeys of migrants cause a particular risk to become victims of enforced disappearances. This paper explores and presents the reasons behind the decision of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to adopt the First General Comment on Enforced Disappearances in the Context of Migration, but also elaborates on the process preceded the adoption as well as the content of the document itself. It also discusses the forthcoming steps in dissemination and implementation of the General Comment focusing on the specific roles of other universal, regional and national human rights mechanisms, including the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.

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