Grażyna Baranowska (Poznan Human Rights Centre) has published a book titled Rights of Families of Disappeared Persons (Intersentia).
Here is the abstract of the book:
“This book examines how international judicial and non-judicial bodies in
Europe address the needs of the families of forcibly disappeared
persons. The needs in question are returning the remains of disappeared
persons; the right to truth; the acceptance of responsibility by states;
and the right to compensation. These have been identified as the four
most commonly shared basic and fundamental needs of families in which an
adult was disappeared many years previously and is now assumed to be
dead, which is representative of the situation of the vast majority of
families of disappeared persons in Europe.
The analysis covers
the judgments and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the
UN Human Rights Committee, the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia, the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina,
the Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo, as well as the activities of
the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus, the Special Process on
Missing Persons in the Territory of former Yugoslavia, the UN Committee
on Enforced Disappearances and the International Commission on Missing
Persons. In so doing, the book demonstrates whether, how, and based on
what principles these four needs of the families of disappeared persons
can constitute a claim based on international human rights law.”
