Their families say that they are "neither dead nor alive", and it's as if they are dying a little bit every day... They are the invisible victims of armed conflict, the ones forgotten by the authorities... and they number in the thousands. From the 1970s to today, in Algeria, Syria, all the way to Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, enforced disappearances transcend the past and reach into the present. Disappearances can take the form of torture, executions or secret detention. It constitutes a crime against humanity when widespread and systematic. But more than that - behind every picture of someone disappeared lies suffering, uncertainty and the torture of a family, affecting entire societies.
On the international day of the disappeared, Alkarama stands alongside the families whose loved ones have disappeared, be it in Algeria, Syria, Iraq Lebanon or Yemen to support them in their combat to obtain their right to truth and justice, and to honor the memory of the people they have lost.