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Songs to commemorate the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance

Every August 30, the world remembers the hundreds of thousands of victims of enforced disappearances. In times of hardened discourses, music also becomes a channel to shout injustices, to shed light on them to make them visible, to raise awareness. And there, as always, the voices of women rise up in defense of human rights in the form of a song.

  • 01/09/2023 • 16:14

In 2010, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization declared August 30 as the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance to focus on this violation of human rights, whose existence has reached a global scale, in addition to the exercised in past decades by military dictatorships in specific geographical regions.

 

Hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have disappeared in at least 85 countries. Forced disappearances occur within the framework of situations of internal conflict as a method of political repression that seeks to eliminate the opponent, at the hands of government agents or groups organized by individuals who act on their behalf, with their support or complicity; Understanding forced disappearance as the detention or transfer of persons who are deprived of their liberty against their will without revealing their whereabouts or admitting their status as detainees, taking away the possibility of being in accordance with the law and under its consequent protection.

 

In times of hardened discourses, music does one of the many things it knows how to do: become a channel to shout injustices, shed light to make them visible, create awareness. And there, as always, the voices of women rise up in defense of human rights, in the form of a song.