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detention and transfer of such persons should be made promptly available to their families
and counsel, and an official up-to-date register of detainees must be available in every place
of detention).
429. The Working Group reiterates that, in many cases where disappearances arise from
conditions of armed conflict not of an international character, the way to an enduring and
sustainable solution is for the international community to take concerted action aimed at
tackling the root causes that give rise to such internal situations. It is crucial that early
warning indicators pointing to the occurrence of or potential for disappearances be
monitored with a view to preventing this phenomenon. The Working Group is convinced
that well-thought-out policies and actions directed at breaking the vicious cycle of
increasing poverty that gives rise to conflict are among the essential preventive measures to
consider in this regard.
430. The preventive measures noted above are particularly aimed at democratizing the
structures of governance, making human rights the cornerstone of public policy, and
empowering civil society organizations to act as watchdogs. Governments should take steps
to create and support specific bodies and institutions charged with addressing
disappearances.
431. The principles of the Declaration should be disseminated through the mass media for
the purpose of public education.
432. These principles, along with all other human rights norms, should be incorporated in
the curriculum of the police academies and training programmes of security forces.
433. The Working Group reiterates its encouragement to the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights to promote the Declaration and to include in its
programme of technical cooperation the strengthening of national capacities for the
prevention and eradication of disappearances.
V. ADOPTION OF THE REPORT
434. At the eighty-third session, on 30 November 2007, the present report was adopted by the
members of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Expert member
Stephen J. Toope (Canada) was unable to attend this session.
Santiago Corcuera (Chairperson-Rapporteur)
J. ‘Bayo Adekanye
Saied Rajaie Khorasani
Darko Göttlicher
(Mexico)
(Nigeria)
(Islamic Republic of Iran)
(Croatia)
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