Civil Initiative «We Remember» expresses gratitude to all those who signed the Open letter to the UN Human Rights Council members in support of the Convention
1 July 2006

On behalf of Civil Initiative «We Remember» Svetlana Zavadskaya, Irina Krasovskaya, Kseniya Krasovskaya and Valeriya Krasovskaya express gratitude to all those who answered the appeal to sign the Open letter to the UN Human Rights Council members in support of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances.

We received almost three hundred letters of support from NGO's and persons all over the world.

Gongadse Foundation (Ukraine), Victims of war (Chechnia), Project on Transitional Democracies (USA), Foundation named after Gennady Karpenko (Germany), Civil Initiative Charter 97 (Belarus), Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (China), Czech Euro-Atlantic Council (Czech Republic), Analytical Center on Globalization and Regional Cooperation (Armenia), European Strategy Group (Ukraine), Free Theater (Belarus) — these are only a few of more than 60 organizations wchich signed the Open letter.

Philosopher Andre Glucksmann (France), Gazeta Vybortza editor-in chief Adam Michnik (Poland), writer Elisabeth Badinter (France), writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (Marocco), writer Hans Christoph Buch (Germany), Senator Franco Debenedetti (Italy) — those names open the list of more than 200 names of persons who send us letters of support.

We are thankful to everyone who signed the Open letter. Every signature is an essential step in creating the new world. World where no soul will live in eternal pang of uncertainity. World without enforced disappearances.

Thank you.