Editing Enforced disappearance (section)

=== 1977 and 1979 resolutions ===
In 1977, the [[General Assembly of the United Nations]] again discussed disappearances in its resolution 32/118.<ref>"the Assembly expresses&nbsp;... its special concern and indignation at the incessant disappearance of persons who, according to available evidence, can be attributed to political reasons and to the refusal of the Chilean authorities to accept their responsibility for a large number of Persons under such conditions or to explain it, or even to conduct an adequate investigation of the cases that have been brought to their attention." General Assembly resolution 32/118 of 16 December 1977, para. 2.</ref> By then, the Nobel Prize winner [[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]] had made an international appeal that, with the support of the French government,<ref>Eduardo Febbro, [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/subnotas/68730-22331-2006-06-20.html ''Una iniciativa de Argentina y de Francia con historia accidentada''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708220744/https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/subnotas/68730-22331-2006-06-20.html |date=8 July 2018 }}. ''[[El País]]'', 20 June 2006</ref> obtained the response of the General Assembly in the form of resolution 33/173 of 20 December 1978, which specifically referred to "missing persons" and requested the Commission on Human Rights to make appropriate recommendations.

On 6 March 1979, the Commission authorized the appointment as experts of Dr. [[Felix Ermacora]] and Waleed M. Sadi, who later resigned due to political pressure,<ref>E/CN.4/2002/71-page 10</ref> to study the question of the fate of disappearances in [[Chile]], issuing a report to the General Assembly on 21 November 1979. Felix Ermacora's report became a reference point on the legal issue of crime by including a series of conclusions and recommendations which were later collected by international organizations and bodies.<ref>A / 34/583 / Add.1 21 November 1979</ref>

Meanwhile, during the same year, the General Assembly of the [[Organization of American States]] adopted a resolution on Chile on 31 October, in which it declared that the practice of disappearances was "an affront to the conscience of the hemisphere",<ref>OEA AG/Rev.443 (IX-0/79), para. 3</ref> after having sent in September a mission of the Inter-American Commission to [[Argentina]], which confirmed the systematic practice of enforced disappearances by successive military juntas. Despite the exhortations of non-governmental organizations and family organizations of the victims, in the same resolution of 31 October 1979, the General Assembly of the OAS issued a statement, after receiving pressure from the Argentine government, in which only the states in which persons had disappeared were urged to refrain from enacting or enforcing laws that might hinder the investigation of such disappearances.<ref>OEA, AG/Res. 443 (IX-0/79), para. 5</ref>

Shortly after the report by Félix Ermacora, the [[UN Commission on Human Rights]] considered one of the proposals made and decided on 29 February 1980 to set up the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the first of the so-called thematic mechanisms of the commission and the most important body of the United Nations that has since been dealing with the problem of disappearances in cases that can be attributed to governments, as well as issuing recommendations to the commission and governments on the improvement of the protection afforded to miss persons and their families and to prevent cases of enforced disappearance. Since then, different causes began to be developed in various international legal bodies, whose sentences served to establish a specific jurisprudence on enforced disappearance.