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Restoring contact between families separated by armed conflicts and natural disasters
What to do if you are looking for a missing relative ? Every year, armed conflicts, other situations of violence and natural disasters leave countless people seeking news of family members.
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Rwanda. A woman and her son are reunited thanks to the ICRC's restoring family links programme.

Restoring family links means carrying out, in those situations, a range of activities that aim to prevent separation and disappearance, restore and maintain contact between family members, and clarify the fate of persons reported missing. It involves collecting information about persons who are missing, persons who have died, and vulnerable persons such as children separated from their families and persons deprived of their freedom. It also involves tracing persons unaccounted for, organizing the exchange of family news and the transmission of documents when normal means of communication have broken down, organizing family reunifications and repatriations, and issuing travel documents and attestations.

These activities are carried out by the worldwide Family Links Network constituted by the ICRC and the tracing services of the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies.

Respect for the family's unity goes hand in hand with respect for human dignity. Every year, the ICRC and the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies help hundreds of thousands of people (displaced persons, refugees, detainees and missing persons) to restore family links and to clarify the fate of missing relatives.

link to FamilyLinks Home page Helping families get news of loved ones.

See also : The missing - a major ICRC initiative

Key document
    21-2-2008
    What to do if you are looking for a relative
    You are anxious for news of a relative with whom you have lost contact due to an armed conflict, other situations of violence or a natural disaster. Postal service, telephone and other regular means of communication have broken down.
    (ICRC Activities\Protection\Restoring family links)
    Includes Photo

    27-8-2007
    The Missing: preventing disappearances and finding answers
    On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared on 30 August, Renée Zellweger Monin, head of the ICRC's Task Force on the Missing, talks about how the organization is working to prevent disappearances and bring news to the long-suffering families of the missing.
    (Focus\Missing persons)
    Interview Includes Photo

    28-11-2006
    Restoring family links: strengthening the response of the Movement
    Building on the Agenda for Humanitarian Action adopted by the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 2003, the ICRC has launched a global initiative to strengthen the Red Cross and Red Crescent Family Links Network over the coming decade.
    (ICRC Activities\Protection\Restoring family links)
    Includes Photo

    27-11-2000
    War and family links: general overview
    (ICRC Activities\Protection\Restoring family links)

Project bulletins
    31-8-2007
    Restoring family links – project bulletin No. 3
    Our relationships — with family and friends — play an essential role in defining our identities and provide us with a sense of security and stability. If they break down, important elements of our identity are lost and so is our primary source of support. The Restoring Family Links (RFL) Strategy for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement puts these ties back at the heart of the Movement’s activities.
    (ICRC Activities\Protection\Restoring family links)
    Includes PDF

    28-7-2006
    Restoring family links – project bulletin No. 2
    Building on the Agenda for Humanitarian Action adopted by the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 2003, the ICRC has launched a global initiative to strengthen the Red Cross and Red Crescent Family Links Network over the coming decade. The purpose of the project is to build a dynamic network of tracing services that can respond quickly and efficiently to the needs of separated families.
    (ICRC Activities\Protection\Restoring family links)
    Includes PDF

    30-11-2005
    Restoring family links – project bulletin No. 1
    In December 2004, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement launched a project to develop its work on restoring family links. The aim is to meet the humanitarian needs of people separated from their families. Project Bulletin No. 1 explains the main phases of creating a strategy for the coming ten years.
    (ICRC Activities\Protection\Restoring family links)
    Includes PDF

Annual Report
Feature
    15-5-2008
    Myanmar: supporting the National Society to help reunite families
    When San-Hta Nyunt was planning to return to Myanmar for a holiday after completing her most recent mission as a tracing delegate with the ICRC in Tunis, little did she realise that her next mission would be in her own cyclone-hit country.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Myanmar)
    Feature Includes Photo

    15-5-2008
    Argentina: restoring family links during armed conflict and violence
    For almost thirty years, Irene Quaglia has been responsible for tracing activities at the ICRC’s Buenos Aires delegation. This has involved her in two dramatic periods of Argentine history: the violence of the 1970s and the Falklands war. In this article, she shares her memories with us.
    (The ICRC worldwide\The Americas\Argentina)
    Feature Includes Photo

    9-5-2008
    Colombia/Panama: a Red Cross message crosses the Darién forest
    Liris Copete and her mother Roquelina Córdoba had to flee Colombia and take refuge in Punusa, in the Panamanian province of Darién, on account of constant clashes in the area where they lived. In 2004, they again had to move in search of safety.
    (The ICRC worldwide\The Americas\Panama)
    Feature Includes Photo

    2-5-2008
    Afghanistan: video calls provide vital link to families of detainees
    Early in 2008, the ICRC and American authorities set up a system to enable individuals held at the US detention facility in Bagram to communicate with their families via video-teleconference calls. The ICRC's tracing field officer in Kabul, Haji Abu Sayed, tells the story of Janan, a nomadic herdsman who travelled long and far to see his son.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Afghanistan)
    Feature Includes Photo

    28-4-2008
    Kenya: Red Cross helps mother find son after 20 years
    With the signing of the peace agreement and the formation of a coalition government in Kenya, hopes are high that a solution will be found for the more than 170,000 people currently living in IDP (internally displaced persons) camps. ICRC and KRCS (Kenyan Red Cross) tracing teams have reunited more than 120 families separated by the post-election violence. Anne Mucheke reports.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Kenya)
    Feature

    25-4-2008
    Tunisia: a Guantanamo internee and his family exchange news by phone for the first time
    Wednesday 27 February, 3.00 p.m., in the family home of Guantanamo internee Ahmed (fictitious name). Four pairs of eyes focus anxiously on the cellular phone which Ralph Wehbe, ICRC delegate in Tunis, has brought. In a few minutes, Ahmed's father, brother and two sisters will perhaps have a chance to speak to the young man they haven't seen for many long years for the first time.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Tunisia)
    Feature

    4-4-2008
    Chechnya: Gawza says she is all cried out
    In January 2008 the ICRC embarked on a programme designed to assess the legal, administrative, psychological and psycho-social needs of people who have a loved one missing. Virginie, a psychologist, and Aïna – both working for the ICRC in Grozny – visited Gawza, whose son is missing.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Russia)
    Feature Includes Photo

    12-3-2008
    Sierra Leone: home at last
    Sierra Leone's internal conflict between the Revolutionary United Front and government forces ended in 2002. Countless families were split up by the fighting and many are still trying to trace their loved ones six years on. The ICRC's Abu Bakr Gamanga reports.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Sierra Leone)
    Feature Includes Photo

    18-2-2008
    Chad: Waiting for news from N’Djamena
    As the inhabitants of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, go about rebuilding their lives, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Red Cross of Chad are striving to respond to the emotional needs of families split up by violence.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Chad)
    Feature Includes Photo

    18-2-2008
    Three orphans return to family in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    In July 2007 two nuns appeared at the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Brazzaville to request that the organization repatriate three young orphans to Zongo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The story of a journey filled with apprehension and joy, by Valery Mbaoh and Latif M’Backe.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Congo-Brazzaville)
    Feature Includes Photo

    8-2-2008
    Kenya: helping to heal the anguish of families torn apart
    With a large-scale assistance operation in place for people displaced by the violence, the Kenya Red Cross and the ICRC are urgently seeking to locate and re-unite relatives who became separated in the turmoil. Report from Nakuru, in the Rift Valley.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Kenya)
    Feature Includes Photo

    31-1-2008
    DRC: helping child soldiers find the road home
    In eastern DRC there is a centre that has helped over 1,500 former child soldiers reintegrate with their communities. The ICRC provides material support and plays the crucial role of reconnecting the children with their families. Bernard Barrett reports from Bukavu.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Congo-Kinshasa)
    Feature Includes Photo

    29-1-2008
    Darfur: a message from mum lights up Seina’s day
    Family separation is one of the painful lasting consequences of the Darfur conflict. Thousands of people who have lost touch with their families regain contact thanks to messages sent through the ICRC and the Sudanese Red Crescent. The ICRC’s Cecilia Goin reports from North Darfur.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Sudan)
    Feature Includes Photo

    13-1-2008
    Afghanistan: waiting for a hi-tech glimpse of their loved ones
    Until now, inmates of the detention facility at Bagram have communicated with their families using traditional Red Cross Message forms. In mid-January the ICRC, with the US military, introduced a video-conference system that allows relatives to see and hear their loved ones. Focus on three families eager to try it out.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Afghanistan)
    Feature Includes Photo

    8-1-2008
    Côte d'Ivoire: Finest Christmas present
    With tears in her eyes, Pauline clasps her daughter close as a crowd gathers to watch. It has been five long years, and no-one in the village believed the child could still be alive. "It's the most wonderful Christmas present I've ever had! God bless the Red Cross!"
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Cote d'Ivoire)
    Feature Includes Photo

    30-11-2007
    Bangladesh: bringing news of those lost in the storm
    Since Cyclone Sidr hit coastal areas of the country on 15 November, the death toll has risen to over 3,000. With 1,700 people still listed missing, the Bangladesh Red Crescent's tracing staff is working tirelessly to bring news of the disappeared to their families.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Bangladesh)
    Feature Includes Photo

    24-9-2007
    Congo-Kinshasa: former child soldiers return to their families
    The ongoing peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is allowing some fighters to lay down their weapons and begin a peaceful life. The ICRC is helping to demobilize child soldiers so that they can return to their families. Journalist Isabel Coello reports.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Congo-Kinshasa)
    Feature Includes Photo

    7-9-2007
    Sudan: family reunion brings light to blind man's life
    The protracted conflict in Darfur has separated thousands of people from their families over several decades. Salih Ashgar, 78, is one of the victims. He fled for his life, found shelter in various camps, most of the time on his own. His hardship took a turn for the worse the day he became blind. Since being reunited with his brother after 24 years of separation, light and hope have returned to Salih's life.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Sudan)
    Feature Includes Photo

    29-8-2007
    The Missing in Iraq: a harsh reality, an unsolved tragedy
    Not knowing the fate of family members missing as a result of armed conflict or violence is a harsh reality for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, including Iraqis. Mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, daughters, sons and their extended families are desperate to know the whereabouts or fate of their loved ones.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Middle East and North Africa\Iraq)
    Feature Includes Photo

    16-7-2007
    Rwanda: Cyprien helps young Evariste to rejoin family after years of separation
    Cyprien Ndemeye has been a Rwandan Red Cross volunteer for 15 years. For most of that time he has worked to trace and reunite families thrust apart by the tragic events that have shaped Rwanda and the region since 1994. As time passes, memories fade and any information obtained may be too fragmentary to help to reunite a family. Nevertheless, thanks to Cyprien, a young man aged 16 was able to rejoin his family last year.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Rwanda)
    Feature Includes Photo

    9-7-2007
    Somalia: helping separated families stay in touch
    One of the tasks of the ICRC in Somalia is to reunite families separated by conflict or natural disaster. To meet this challenge, the organization uses a wide range of tools, including the Red Cross message system, its family links website and radio broadcasts.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Somalia)
    Feature

    25-6-2007
    Southern Afghanistan: Red Cross messages reunite hundreds of detainees with their families every month
    In Southern Afghanistan, ICRC delegates regularly visit detainees in places of detention throughout the region. As part of this work, the ICRC offers detainees the opportunity to maintain contact with their families their through Red Cross messages.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Afghanistan)
    Feature

    18-6-2007
    Family reunion brings tears of joy to beleaguered West Darfur
    Howeyda Abdullah Awadh is a shy fifteen-year-old girl with a gorgeous smile. She had plenty to smile about at a recent family reunion in West Darfur. The ICRC's Ayman Alshehabi reports from Al Geneina.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Sudan)
    Feature Includes Photo

    5-6-2007
    Even Dark Clouds Can Have a Silver Lining
    They say that "every cloud has a silver lining" and perhaps this is true for 12 year old Saif-u'Rahman. Saif was living happily with his brother in Iran since 2006, but in May this year he was collected by the local police while shopping, and deported through the Islam Qala border crossing and on to Herat, as one member of a group of mass deportees.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Afghanistan)
    Feature Includes Photo

    21-5-2007
    Restoring family links: bringing Caprivi families to visit their detained relatives in Namibia
    As the rest of the world marked May Day, more than 140 people from the Caprivi Strip of Namibia were rejoicing from a different perspective: they were celebrating the long-awaited opportunity to visit their relatives who are behind bars since the secessionist Caprivi uprising of 1999.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Namibia)
    Feature Includes Photo

    24-4-2007
    DRC: children join their families after years of agonizing separation
    As of December 2006, there were over 130,000 Congolese refugees living in 3 of 11 camps in Tanzania's western corridor. Many of them are now returning home through voluntary repatriation assisted by the ICRC and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The ICRC's Anne Mucheke tells the story of two of the four children she accompanied on the long journey back to their families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Congo-Kinshasa)
    Feature Includes Photo

    6-5-2005
    Sixty years on: tracing victims of the Second World War
    Every year, the ICRC and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies receive tens of thousands of tracing requests relating to the Second World War. The work of the ICRC and Red Cross/Red Crescent tracing officers still reunites families torn apart during the six-year conflict. Marcin Monko, of the ICRC's regional delegation in Budapest, sent this report.
    (About the ICRC\History\Second World War)
    Feature Includes Photo

ICRC film
    3-5-2006
    Angola: the scars of conflict
    Four years after the civil war in Angola ended, thousands of children are still separated from their families. 13 year old Teresa has had to look after her younger brothers and sister since their parents were killed in the conflict. The Red Cross has managed to locate their uncle who has agreed to take them in, and the children set out to meet their new family.
    (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Films\From the field)
    ICRC film Includes Video

    16-12-2004
    Where are they now? Restoring and maintaining family links: the worldwide network of the ICRC and the Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies
    Uncertainty over the fate of a loved one causes untold suffering in wartime. This film captures how the ICRC Central Tracing Agency, together with Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies all over the world, works to alleviate this suffering. It illustrates the different means and methods used in the essential efforts to trace family members and to restore family links. From distributing Red Cross messages and organizing family reunifications to visiting persons deprived of their freedom, the work undertaken brings welcome news and relief to thousands of people every year.
    (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Films\Protection)
    ICRC film Includes Video

ICRC Publication
    28-8-2006
    The Missing: ICRC progress report
    In 2002, the ICRC began looking at ways of better assisting people missing as a result of armed conflict or internal violence, and their relatives. Following an International Conference of Governmental and Non-Governmental Experts (held in 2003), the Agenda for Humanitarian Action was adopted, which sets out clear objectives for the States and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to achieve between 2004 and 2007.
    (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Publications\Protection)
    ICRC Publication Includes PDF

    30-4-2004
    Armed conflict and family links
    This revised leaflet provides a concise summary of the problem of families split up by war and a description of the methods used to restore family links, reunite separated families and ascertain the status of detainees and missing persons.
    (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Publications\Protection)
    ICRC publication Includes PDF

    26-3-2004
    Inter-agency guiding principles on unaccompanied and separated children
    This set of comprehensive guidelines outlines a framework and set of principles intended to ensure that the rights and needs of separated children are effectively addressed. Created through close inter-agency collaboration, the guidelines aim to promote and support preparedness, coordination and good practice based on lessons learnt. The document addresses all aspect of an emergency from preventing separations, to family tracing and reunification through to long-term solutions and encourages the pooling of complementary skills and expertise.
    (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Publications\Protection)
    ICRC Publication Includes PDF

    31-12-2002
    Waiting for news
    When war breaks out families are torn apart, populations can be displaced or forced into exile, children become separated from their parents, and soldiers are wounded, taken prisoner, reported missing or killed in action. The ICRC and the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies work, often together with other humanitarian agencies, to alleviate the human suffering arising from these situations - in addition to other aid, this can include distributing Red Cross messages, organizing family reunifications, issuing temporary travel documents and capture cards and visiting persons deprived of their freedom.
    (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Publications\Protection)
    ICRC publication Includes PDF

    31-12-2001
    Restoring family links: a guide for National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
    Intended for National Societies, this guide promotes a common approach of the Movement to restoring family links broken by conflict, natural disaster or other humanitarian crises. It includes advice on refining tracing tools, including new technologies, and describes the legal basis for tracing work. It aims to improve skills to respond to the growing worldwide demand for such services.
    (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Publications\Protection)
    ICRC publication

International Review of the Red Cross
Interview
    18-1-2008
    Colombia: how the ICRC helped in the release of Clara and Consuelo
    The freeing of the two women hostages highlighted the ICRC's work in the long conflict in Colombia, which has created millions of victims. Barbara Hintermann, head of the ICRC delegation in Bogota, gives the background to the release operation and to broader aspects of ICRC concern.
    (The ICRC worldwide\The Americas\Colombia)
    Interview Includes Photo

    30-11-2007
    Somalia: providing essential tracing service despite harsh conditions
    The Somali Red Crescent continues to provide tracing services to the beleaguered Somali population, in spite of mounting security concerns. South-north migration is exacerbating an already dire situation. The ICRC's Bernard Barrett talks with the President of the Somali Red Crescent Society, Dr Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, in this excerpt of the interview published in the Arabic-language magazine, Al Insani.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Africa\Somalia)
    Interview Includes Photo

    8-6-2007
    "For lasting peace, we must deal with the missing"
    Mary Werntz, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Nepal, spoke with The Nepali Times about helping families find missing members and the need for a separate, independent commission on the disappeared. This interview was first published in The Nepali Times and is reproduced with the kind authorization of the publisher. The interview was conducted by Anagha Neelakantan.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Asia and the Pacific\Nepal)
    Interview Includes Photo

    20-12-2006
    Enforced disappearance: UN Convention "a major achievement" that brings new hope
    The new UN Convention against enforced disappearance was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly this week. In an interview for the website, ICRC legal adviser Cordula Droege explains the convention and talks about the difference this landmark treaty can make to the victims of enforced disappearance and their families.
    (Humanitarian law\Missing persons)
    Interview Includes Photo

Official Statement
    6-2-2007
    Ending enforced disappearances: a matter of urgency for the sake of humanity and justice
    Speech by Mr. Jakob Kellenberger, President of the ICRC, Official ceremony to mark the opening for signature of the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, Paris - 6 February 2007
    (Humanitarian law\Missing persons)
    Official Statement

    27-6-2006
    Enforced disappearance: a violation of humanitarian law and human rights
    Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross to the United Nations Human Rights Council, 27 June 2006, concerning the draft International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances.
    (ICRC Activities\Humanitarian diplomacy\United Nations\Commission on human rights)
    Official Statement

    21-3-2006
    International Tracing Service and historical research
    Since 1955 the ICRC has been managing the International Tracing Service in Arolsen, Germany. Striving to help people who were persecuted under the Nazi regime, including victims of the Holocaust, the ITS works with a purely humanitarian mandate derived from the Bonn Agreements of 6 June 1955.
    (About the ICRC\History\Second World War)
    Official Statement

Photo Collection
    29-4-2008
    From the tragedy of separation to the joy of being reunited
    The suffering of families without news of what has happened to a relative is one of the cruellest consequences of war and disaster. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's global network seeks to restore and maintain links between separated family members and to establish the fate of missing persons.
    (Info resources\Photos)
    Photo Collection Includes Photo

    23-3-2005
    Guinea – Liberia: Child refugees return home
    Every week, the ICRC repatriates dozens of children displaced by war in West Africa. These children, who come from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire, often spend many long years in refugee camps before they can return to their families. In February 2005, Vassily Fadeev and Jean-Yves Clémenzo, two ICRC communication delegates based in Guinea and Liberia, accompanied six of them on their trip back home.
    (Info resources\Photos\Africa)
    Photo Collection Includes Photo

Press article
    29-4-2008
    The Missing: a hidden tragedy
    Uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones is a harsh reality for countless families of people unaccounted for as a result of armed conflict or internal violence. Much remains to be done to address this pressing humanitarian issue and to help families cope with the trauma - Article published in the Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine, No 1, 2008.
    (Focus\Missing persons)
    Press article

    30-4-2007
    Georgia : A tale of three women
    Since Georgia gained independence in 1991, thousands of families have been uprooted and torn apart by the tensions caused by the secessionist aspirations of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The stories of three women poignantly attest to the suffering these people have endured - Article published in the Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine, No 1, 2007
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
    Press article

Press briefing
    29-8-2007
    Missing persons: a serious shadow, a preventable tragedy
    At a press conference in Geneva to launch an ICRC report entitled Missing Persons: a hidden tragedy, the ICRC's director of operations, Pierre Krähenbühl, has called on the international community to do more to address the plight of missing persons and their families.
    (Focus\Missing persons)
    Press briefing Includes Photo

Video Collection
    6-12-2007
    Family affairs: a journey home for Burundi's children
    With the help of the ICRC, four children in the Lukolé refugee camps prepare to leave Tanzania to return to their families in Burundi. The organization has been active in this camp since 1994 and reunites people across borders under three conditions: the unaccompanied children must give their consent, families are ready to welcome them and security conditions are sufficient to safely resume their past lives.
    (Info resources\Video)
    Video Collection Includes Video

More in this section
    10-1-2008
    Restoring family links
    Council of delegates of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Geneva, 23-24 November 2007
    (Focus\RC Movement\Council of Delegates\2007)
    Includes PDF

    3-6-2005
    The International Tracing Service – 50 years on
    The International Tracing Service came into being in its present form through the Bonn Agreements of 6 June 1955. It has the mammoth task of gathering, filing, preserving and processing the personal records of civilians who were persecuted under the Third Reich.
    (About the ICRC\History\Second World War)

    16-7-2002
    War and family links: Steps towards reunification
    Laws exist which protect children in the midst of armed conflict; laws guaranteeing their right to life, dignity and other basic rights. The ICRC insists that these laws should be applied and implemented. Furthermore, to reinforce the existing law, it is essential to ensure that relevant provisions of international humanitarian law are respected and implemented so that the basic rights of children, as well as their right to life and to dignity can be guaranteed.
    (ICRC Activities\Protection\Restoring family links)
    Includes Photo

    15-7-2002
    History of the Central Tracing Agency of the ICRC
    (ICRC Activities\Protection\Restoring family links)

    27-11-2000
    War and family links: relevant legal texts
    Forwarding information, tracing missing persons and family reunification under international humanitarian law and Red Cross law
    (Humanitarian law\Missing persons)

Other site
    8-2-2007
    International Federation of Family Associations of Missing Persons from Armed Conflicts
    IFFAMPAC is an international humanitarian non-governmental organization working with family associations of missing persons from armed conflicts worldwide. IFFAMPAC focuses on the surviving families of armed conflict who face tremendous social, economic, legal, and cultural challenges when a primary economic provider of the family vanishes and cannot be accounted for as a result of conflict.
    (Info resources\Other sites\Non-governmental organizations)
    Other site

    23-2-2005
    International Tracing Service in Arolsen
    The International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen (ITS) serves victims of Nazi persecutions and their families by documenting their fate through the archives it manages. The ITS preserves these historic records and makes them available for research.
    (Info resources\Other sites\Red Cross and Red Crescent)
    Other site



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