Editing Enforced disappearance (section)

=== Situation in Europe and resolutions of 1993 and 1995 ===
In Europe, the [[European Court of Human Rights]], established in 1959, in accordance with article 38 of the [[European Convention on Human Rights|European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights]] and Fundamental Freedoms of 1950, became a single permanent and binding court for all the Member States of the Council of Europe. Although the European Convention does not contain any express prohibition of the practice of enforced disappearance, the Court dealt with several cases of disappearance in 1993 in the context of the conflict between the Turkish security forces and members or supporters of the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party|Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)]] from the Kurdish region to the southeast of Turkey.<ref>E / CN.4 / 2002/71 pag. 20–23</ref>

Another body providing the basis for the legal definition of the crime of enforced disappearance was the Human Rights Chamber for [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], a human rights tribunal established under Annex 6 of the [[Dayton Peace Agreement]] of 14 December 1995 which, although it was declared incompetent by ratione temporis to deal with the majority of the 20,000 cases reported, it issued a number of sentences against the Serbian Republic of Bosnia<ref>Palic v. Republika Srpska, Case No. CH / 99/3196, decision on admissibility and merits, 11 January 2001</ref> and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina,<ref>Unkovic v. The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Case No. CH / 99/2150, decision on admissibility and merits of 9 November 2001.</ref> which compensated several families of disappeared persons.