Detention or abduction of persons against their will or deprivation of their liberty, by government officials or by organised groups or individuals acting at the behest of a government, followed by a refusal to disclose the fate or whereabouts of the persons concerned or a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of their liberty, placing such persons outside the protection of the law.
Arrestation, détention, enlèvement ou toute autre forme de privation de liberté par des agents de l'État ou par des personnes ou des groupes de personnes qui agissent avec l'autorisation, l'appui ou l'acquiescement de l'État, suivi du déni de la reconnaissance de la privation de liberté ou de la dissimulation du sort réservé à la personne disparue ou du lieu où elle se trouve, la soustrayant à la protection de la loi.
2025-08-25T06:35:08.6050900Z
https://www.termdat.bk.admin.ch/entry/521207
UNO, Internationales [Übereinkommen](http://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF-Dateien/Pakte_Konventionen/CPED/cped_de.pdf) zum Schutz aller Personen vor dem Verschwindenlassen (28.6.2016).
FDFA, The ABCs of International Humanitarian Law, 2014, p. 21.
Conseil de l'Europe, Droits de l'homme en droit international: textes de base, 2007, p. 715.
Convenzione internazionale per la protezione di tutte le persone dalla sparizione forzata, [FF 2014 471](https://www.admin.ch/opc/it/federal-gazette/2014/471.pdf) (28.6.2016).
[E]nforced disappearance violates, or threatens to violate, a range of customary rules of international humanitarian law, most notably the prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of liberty (see Rule 99), the prohibition of torture and other cruel or inhuman treatment (see Rule 90) and the prohibition of murder (see Rule 89).
Nessuna circostanza eccezionale, qualunque essa sia, che si tratti di stato di guerra o di minaccia di guerra, d’instabilità politica interna o di qualsiasi altro stato eccezionale, potrà essere invocata per giustificare la sparizione forzata.
Based on UN [Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance](http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/47/a47r133.htm), A/RES/47/133 (23.4.2015).
([Convention internationale pour la protection de toutes les personnes contre les disparitions forcées\s, art. 2.](http://www.ohchr.org/FR/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/ConventionCED.aspx))