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Author: Grażyna Baranowska

29 May

[Grażyna Baranowska is a Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. Dr Nasia Hadjigeorgiou is an Associate Professor in Transitional Justice and Human Rights at UCLan Cyprus.] People have always gone missing and their loved ones have always sought to establish their fate. In this endeavour,...

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24 Nov

[Assistant Professor at the Poznań Human Rights Centre, Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.] The Trump administration’s ‘family separation policy’ has been widely reported and criticized (see for example here and here). Recently, the public learned of the policy’s horrible long-term effects: in October 2020, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) revealed that parents of 545 children...

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05 Sep

[Grazyna Baranowska is a Senior Researcher at the Poznań Human Rights Centre of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.] The nature of enforced disappearances is that it affects whole families, rather than only the individuals who disappeared. While the majority of the forcibly disappeared are men, these disappearances have a strong economic, socials and psychological effects on the...

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