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Aktibismo: Balakid o Daan tungo sa Panlipunang Pagbabago
The Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance (FIND) is now live on Facebook. Please join us here:
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BRING THEM HOME – No more disappearances!
A Solidarity Message by the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)
for the Families of the Disappeared (FOD) in Sri Lanka
A Solidarity Message by the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)
for the Families of the Disappeared (FOD) in Sri Lanka

Defend the Defenders: An open letter the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of human rights defenders in Asia
The Asian Federation against Enforced Disappearances (AFAD) joins the international human rights community in strongly denouncing the conviction by the Cyber Tribunal of Dhaka sentencing Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, Secretary and Director of human rights organization Odhikar respectively, to two years imprisonment for being fearless activists in defense of human rights, rule of law and fundamental freedoms in Bangladesh.

Women are Pillars of Strength in the Struggle to End Enforced Disappearances
On the observance of The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (IDD), the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) emphasizes the importance of human lives and condemns any act that goes against basic human rights. In doing so, we bring attention to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CPED), adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 23 December 2010, that states “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for enforced disappearance.”