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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

30 March 2026

Victims first. Action now: Join us to prevent and stop enforced disappearances

Fifty-five years after Rubens Paiva was taken from his home by agents of Brazil's military dictatorship and never returned, his daughters travelled to Geneva to tell their story, what silence costs and join the call to end enforced disappearances everywhere.

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