Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance

NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

Our Lines of Work

Search and Documentation

  • Quick response search missions

  • Continuous investigation and documentation of cases

  • Exhumations of victims' remains

National and International Advocacy

  • Campaigns for justice including legal actions against perpetrators

  • Lobby for the ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearance

  • Campaigns to make enforced disappearance a societal concern

Psychosocial Rehabilitation

  • Psychosocial therapy and rehabilitation sessions

  • Welfare assistance (medical, death, etc.)

Organizing and Education

  • From nine founding families in the National Capital Region to over 1000 individual members in nine regional chapters nationwide and overseas

  • Human rights education and trainings