Human Rights Council Resolution 7/12. Enforced or involuntary disappearances The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming the relevant articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which protect the right of life, the right of liberty and security of the person, the right not to be subjected to torture and the right to recognition as a person before the law, Recalling resolution 20 (XXXVI) of 29 February 1980 of the Commission on Human Rights establishing a Working Group consisting of five members, to serve as experts in their individual capacity, to examine questions relevant to enforced or involuntary disappearances, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 47/133 of 18 December 1992, by which the Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances as a body of principles for all States, Acknowledging the adoption of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/177 of 20 December 2006, and recognizing that its entry into force as soon as possible through its ratification by 20 States will be a significant event, Deeply concerned in particular by the increase in enforced or involuntary disappearances in various regions of the world, including arrest, detention and abduction, when these are part of or amount to enforced disappearances, and by the growing number of reports concerning harassment, ill-treatment and intimidation of witnesses of disappearances or relatives of persons who have disappeared, Acknowledging the fact that acts of enforced disappearance are crimes against humanity, as defined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,