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"Fosas Clandestinas": Method for predicting possible locations

"Fosas Clandestinas": Method for predicting possible locations

"Fosas Clandestinas": Method for predicting possible locations

Do clandestine graves (fosas clandestinas) follow any patterns? Researchers present a method for predicting possible locations By Jorge Luis Cortés (IBERO) October 14, 2026 Experts from the IBERO Human Rights Program and the University of Notre Dame presented a methodology in Geneva that uses open-source data and geospatial technologies to study the distribution of clandestine graves in Mexico and identify potential search areas. Credit: Andrea Horcasitas. Is it possible to p

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CNDIH Flags Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances

CNDIH Flags Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances

CNDIH Flags Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances

By Breaking Burundi August 21, 2026 CNIDH says its prison visits uncovered widespread violations, including unlawful detention and cases involving civilians held for non-criminal offenses. Martin Blaise Nyaboho says 135 detainees were held beyond legal limits / CNIDH Burundi’s National Independent Human Rights Commission has said violations of human rights persist in the country, citing arbitrary and prolonged detentions, abductions, enforced disappearances and alleged abuses

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El Salvador extends mass gang detentions until 2027

El Salvador extends mass gang detentions until 2027

El Salvador extends mass gang detentions until 2027

The country faces an extension on gang detentions amidst constitutional reforms which abolished presidential term limits earlier this...

Aug 19, 2025

Rights activist on hunger strike against arbitrary detention

Rights activist on hunger strike against arbitrary detention

Rights activist on hunger strike against arbitrary detention

By News Desk |June 30, 2022 Human rights activist Arsalan Khan, who was forcibly picked up from his house in Karachi by Rangers...

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Jun 30, 2022

4 Balochi students at Karachi University Go Missing

4 Balochi students at Karachi University Go Missing

4 Balochi students at Karachi University Go Missing

https://minutemirror.com.pk/four-baloch-students-go-missing-from-karachi-in-last-three-days-47094/

MinuteMirror | Ali Jan Maqsood

Jun 13, 2022

HRW Report: Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh

HRW Report: Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh

HRW Report: Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh

86 Victims of Enforced Disappearances Still Missing. UN Should Ban Death Squad from Peacekeeping Missions. © Private (Geneva) – United...

Human Rights Watch

Aug 16, 2021

Ending Pakistan’s epidemic of enforced disappearances

Ending Pakistan’s epidemic of enforced disappearances

Ending Pakistan’s epidemic of enforced disappearances

Thousands of Pakistan’s Baloch have been abducted by security forces. Will Prime Minister Imran Khan act to find our loved ones? Al...

Mar 10, 2021

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