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When the public debate began at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the question of disappeared persons, the atmosphere in the huge assembly hall was tense and expectant. The public gallery was jammed with the wives and families of those persons who had been "disappeared"-arrested, tortured, imprisoned, or possibly killed by governments which refused to admit any knowledge or responsibility. The concerned audience came from all over the world. A few had even been disappeared themselves, but had managed to escape. They had haunted the halls and corridors of the Palais des Nations in Geneva since the beginning of the Commission; every delegate felt their presence and their desire for the United Nations to do something about their lost loved ones. On a United Nations time scale, the phenomenon of disappearances was a relatively new issue. The General Assembly had first considered it on 20 December 1978 by expressing its concern and recognizing the urgency of the problem.1 The next year, in March 1979, the issue of disappearances was included on the agenda of the Human Rights Commission, but was given such low priority that time expired before it could be debated. It was simply postponed until the 1980 session.2 In the year's interim, international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) performed an immense job of publicizing the issue and creating international pressure for meaningful action by the Human Rights Commission.

The 1980 U. N. Commission on Human Rights and the Disappeared