ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (Switzerland) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO (France) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Centre for Documentation on Refugees UNHCR (Switzerland) United Nations Office for Research and the Collection of Information (United States) In the development of the original formats, comments and other forms of assistance from the following individuals were much appreciated: Helen Fein (Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, United States) Manel Fonseka (Civil Rights Movement, Sri Lanka) Romilly Gregory (Amnesty International, United Kingdom) Thomas Jabine (American Association for the Advancement of Science, United States) Peter Kooijmans (Special Rapporteur on Torture of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Switzerland) Rosario Narváez Vargas (Asociación pro Derechos Humanos - APRODEH, Peru) Salvador Peña (Servicios Educativos Promoci��n y Apoyo Rural - SEPAR, Peru) Luis Guillermo Perez Casas (Colectivo de Abogados "Jose Alvear Restrepo", Colombia) Mariella Ruiz (Centro de Estudios y Acción para la Paz - CEAPAZ, Peru) Marta Scarpato (Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores - ORIT, Mexico) Herbert Spirer (American Statistical Association, United States) Bjørn Stormorken (Statens Datasentral, Norway) Katarina Tomasevski (Danish Centre of Human Rights, Denmark) Edgar Villanueva (Commission on Human Rights, Philippines) Gert Westerveen (United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, Switzerland) Oscar Montealegre Iturra (Comisión Chilena de Derechos Humanos, Chile) Louise Spirer (American Statistical Association, United States) for her skills as a technical manual writer Agneta Pallinder for her skills in editing and design Direction and support were provided by the following individuals who had served and/or are currently serving as members of the HURIDOCS Continuation Committee: Kofi Kumado, Chairperson (Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Ghana) Kumar Rupesinghe, past Chairperson (Sri Lanka / Norway) Agnethe Olesen, Treasurer (Danish Centre for Human Rights, Denmark) James Lawson, past Treasurer (Human Rights Information Centre, Council of Europe, France) Michael Protz-Schwarz, past Treasurer (Evangelical Youth Service, Germany) Bjørn Stormorken, past Treasurer (Norway) Hans Thoolen, past Treasurer (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Switzerland) Supang Chantavanich (Asian Research Centre on Migration, Thailand) Judith Dueck (Canada) Manuel Guzman (Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, Philippines) Aurora Javate De Dios (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Asia-Pacific, Philippines) Jonathan Kuttab (Mandela Institute, Palestine) Aída María Noval (Red de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos, Mexico) ix