The National Institution for Human Rights and the Ombudsman’s Office (INDDHH) denounced that the Uruguayan government refused to “facilitate” the visit of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.
According to the Institution, the Working Group tried to arrange a meeting to the month of November with the aim of “observing and advising on the search for the disappeared in the country”but the government “expressed reservations as to the dates” and then did not respond “to a second communication from the Working Group reiterating the request.”
However, since Foreign Ministry told The Observer that said meeting is being coordinated for the second semester of 2022.
What does this group do?
As the report explains, the United Nations Working Group was “created decades ago by the then UN Human Rights Commission” and is “made up of five independent experts.” “Its main and humanitarian mission is to help relatives and governments to establish the fate and whereabouts of disappeared persons”realizes the report.
He also adds that “he has performed on five continents over the decades” and that “it has active Uruguayan cases since the 1980s”; “It constitutes the largest repository of experience and knowledge on the techniques necessary to address the issue of forced disappearance,” according to the fourth report on the search for disappeared detainees in Uruguay.
