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The President

Professor Emmanuel DECAUX, President of the association


Pr. Decaux at the 4th World Forum on Human Rights of Nantes in 2010

Since 2007, the Pr. Emmanuel Decaux has been the president of the International Permanent Secretariat Human Rights and Local Governments (SPIDH) association. He has recently been appointed president of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances of the United Nations.


Emmanuel Decaux also is :

  • Professor of Public Law at the University Panthéon-Assas Paris II and Director of the Reasearch Center on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (CRDH). He also teaches at the Politic Studies' Institute in Paris.
  • Vice-president National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH) ;

 

Read his CV


Read the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

 

Read the members' list of the Executive Board of the SPIDH

 

Committee on Enforced Disappearances

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) is the body of independent experts which monitors implementation of the Convention by the States Parties.

All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented.

States must report initially within two years of accepting the Convention. The Committee examines each report and shall make such suggestions and general recommendations on the report as it may consider appropriate and shall forward these to the State Party concerned.

In accordance with article 31, a State Party may at the time of ratification of this Convention or at any time afterwards declare that it recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals subject to its jurisdiction claiming to be victims of a violation by this State Party of provisions of this Convention.

The Committee shall meet in Geneva and normally hold two sessions per year.