The fight against impunity: ensuring international accountability of perpetrators of enforced disappearance

The crime of enforced disappearance remains widely unprosecuted, with related charges largely absent from indictments even where a factual basis for them is present. Panelists will discuss challenges for holding perpetrators of enforced disappearance accountable, and existing and emerging solutions to address them.

Moderators

• Sandra EPAL-RATJEN, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), International Advocacy Director, France

• Ian SEIDERMAN, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Senior Legal and Policy Director, Switzerland

Panelists

• Olivier DE FROUVILLE, UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), Chair, France

• Eugénie VENDROUX, Université of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas), Doctoral Student, France

• Reed BRODY, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Commissioner, USA

• Ward FERDINANDUSSE, Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Office, Deputy Prosecutor, Netherlands

• Nazhat Shameem KHAN, International Criminal Court (ICC), Deputy Prosecutor, Fiji (tbc)

• Ana SROVIN CORALLI, The Geneva Graduate Institute, Slovenia

• Robert PETIT, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria (IIIM), Head, Canada

• Ilya NUZOV, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Head of the International Justice Desk – Global Initiative Against Impunity (GIAI), Member

• Syrian victim (tbc)

• Kate VIGNESWARAN, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Director, Global Accountability Initiative, Netherlands/Switzerland

Sponsor

• International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)