7.8 CPED (2006)

The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance — the newest specialized treaty: the enforced disappearance's definition (the deprivation of liberty by state agents or their acquiescence, followed by concealment — the refusal to acknowledge or reveal the fate); the continuous-offence doctrine (the disappearance continuing while concealed); the offence's criminalization (the widespread-or-systematic practice as a crime against humanity); the right to truth and the victims' rights (the relatives' standing); the urgent actions (the disappeared-person search requests — the committee's humanitarian procedure). The committee: CED. Nepal: the pending accession — the conflict-era disappearances (the thousands unaccounted) giving the treaty its special Nepali weight; the transitional-justice machinery (the TRC and CIEDR commissions) as the domestic counterpart whose standards the treaty would anchor.