A/HRC/16/48 lessons learned from the 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. 35. On 25 May 2010, the Working Group issued a press release noting with concern the suspension of Judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain by the General Council of the Judiciary for having admitted and investigated a series of complaints submitted in 2006 regarding more than 100,000 cases of enforced disappearances which occurred during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. 36. On 12 July 2010, the Working Group issued a press release on the passing of Patricio Rice, Coordinator of ICAED (International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances), and co-founder and former Executive Secretary of FEDEFAM (Latin American Federation of Associations of Families of Disappeared Detainees), himself a survivor of enforced disappearance. 37. On 22 July 2010, the Working Group issued a press release on the adoption of the general comment on the right to the truth in relation to enforced disappearances. It did so to focus the attention of States on the relevant obligations deriving from the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance that flow from the right to the truth. 38. To commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared, the Working Group issued a press release on 30 August 2010, expressing its wish that the United Nations include it among the official observed days. The experts reiterated their solidarity with victims, their families and others who work on the issue and called upon States to define enforced disappearance as an autonomous criminal offence in their domestic legislation. The Working Group also called upon States to take measures to promote truth and reconciliation, which ought not to be used as a substitute for bringing perpetrators to justice. The Working Group called upon Governments to sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance and accept the competence of the Committee-to-be under articles 31and 32 of the Convention. It noted that only one more ratification or accession by a State Party was required for its entry into force. G. General comments 39. In 2010, the Working Group adopted two general comments: on enforced disappearance as a continuous crime and on the Right to the Truth in relation to enforced disappearance. General comment on enforced disappearance as a continuous crime Preamble “With a view to focusing the attention of States more effectively on the relevant obligations deriving from the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances decided to adopt general comments on those provisions of the Declaration that might need further explanation. The following general comment complements its previous general comment on article 17 of the Declaration regarding the interpretation of the continuous nature of the crime of enforced disappearance. Under international law, “The breach of an international obligation by an act of a State having a continuing character extends over the entire period during which the act continues and remains not in conformity with the international obligation” 10