By initiative of FEDEFAM (Latin-American Confederacy of Associations of Disappeared Relatives) August 30 commemorates the International Day of the Disappeared. 

This date constitutes a contribution to strengthen the world's conscience about the forced disappearance of people -practice catalogued as a crime against humanity by the OAS and the UN. This represents the work that human rights organizations have carried out to influence public policies - national and international - in order to prevent authoritarianism and to consolidate the validity of human rights and liberties. 

In the last session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations (Geneva, June 29, 2006) the project of the international Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance was approved.

Marta Ocampo de V�zquez, President of Madres de Plaza de Mayo - L�nea Fundadora and member of FEDEFAM and Horacio Ravenna, co-Vicepresident of the APDH (Permanent Assembly for Human Rights), participated in representation of all those that have been promoting this initiative for 25 years. 

47 countries approved the project that should be ratified in the ordinary session that the Council will have in the month of September.