
Global voices unite at the first World Congress on Enforced Disappearances
For 17 years, Edita Burgos has been searching for her son, who was forcibly disappeared in the Philippines. A shy public-school teacher before the tragedy, her life changed when her son was disappeared.
“There was no way I would stay silent,” she said at the event in Geneva. She stepped into the spotlight, becoming a spokesperson for the families of the disappeared.