KATHMANDU, Aug 29: As the world marked the 30th International Day of the Disappeared on Friday, families of the victims and human rights organizations urged the government to disclose whereabouts of the disappeared without delay. They also urged the government to bring to book all those charged with gross human rights violations. In Nepal, the whereabouts of over 1,300 people disappeared during the Maoist insurgency by the state security forces and the insurgents are still unknown. Sadly, not one even a single perpetrator of human rights violations or crimes under international law committed during the conflict has been brought to justice. Enforced disappearance, which constitutes a multiple violation of the human rights of both the individuals disappeared and their families, has repeatedly been described by the UN General Assembly as “an offence to human dignity” and a grave violation of international human rights law. On 21 November, 2006, the government and the CPN (Maoist), now split into UCPN (Maoist) and CPN-Maoist, had signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), to investigate and reveal the fate of those killed or disappeared during the armed conflict within 60 days. Both the parties had promised they would “not promote impunity” and vowed to safeguard the rights of families of the disappeared. However, more than six years later, the promises made in the CPA have still not been fulfilled. On 14 March, 2013, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav had approved an ordinance to set up a commission to investigate into enforced disappearances and Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate into human rights violations committed during the armed conflict. However, the establishment of the commission was temporarily halted after the Supreme Court issued a stay order in April. Human rights organizations, including Advocacy Forum Nepal, Amnesty International, and Committee for Social Justice, Conflict Victim Orphans Society, Conflict Victim Society for Justice, and Informal Sector Service Center (NSEC) among others, have urged the government to bring to book the perpetrators of human rights violations to justice without any delay.