IRRC No. 905

The missing

23 articles

IRRC No. 905 The missing

23 articles

Every day, people go missing amidst conflict and violence, or on the paths of exile, displacement or migration. Meanwhile, those whose loved ones went missing in the past continue to live with an open wound, unable to heal. Long after wars or disasters are over, the wounded have been cared for and new homes have been built upon the ruins of the old ones, the suffering of people whose loved ones are missing lingers on. Given the scale of the phenomenon of missing persons globally, the intergenerational impact that unsolved cases of missing persons have on families, communities and societies, as well as the increased internationalization of man-made and natural disasters, the Review has dedicated this edition to the issue of the missing, examining in particular the needs of missing persons and their families, mechanisms aimed at clarifying the fate of missing persons, and measures taken to identify the dead.

Table of contents

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Editorial: The missing

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Interview with Estela Barnes de Carlotto

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Families of the missing in Sri Lanka: Psychosocial considerations in transitional justice mechanisms

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Families of the missing: Psychosocial effects and therapeutic approaches

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Q&A: The ICRC’s engagement on the missing and their families

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Implementing international law: An avenue for preventing disappearances, resolving cases of missing persons and addressing the needs of their families

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Protection of migrants from enforced disappearance: A human rights perspective

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Establishing mechanisms to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing persons: A proposed humanitarian approach

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The Sri Lankan Office on Missing Persons: Truth and justice in tandem?

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The Office on Missing Persons in Sri Lanka: The importance of a primarily humanitarian mandate

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Determining the fate of missing persons: The importance of archives for “dealing with the past” mechanisms

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Using forensic science to care for the dead and search for the missing: In conversation with Dr Morris Tidball-Binz

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Advances and progress in the obligation to return the remains of missing and forcibly disappeared persons

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The first attempts in Mexico and Central America to address the phenomenon of missing and disappeared migrants

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Management of the dead from Islamic law and international humanitarian law perspectives: Considerations for humanitarian forensics

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Adoption of the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977: A milestone in the development of international humanitarian law

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Strengthening resilience: The ICRC’s community-based approach to ensuring the protection of education

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Announcement: Professors Emiliano Buis and Emanuela-Chiara Gillard join the Editorial Board of the International Review of the Red Cross

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What’s new in law and case law around the world? Biannual update on national implementation of international humanitarian law June-December 2016

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New publication: The first two volumes of the updated Commentaries on the 1949 Geneva Conventions

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International Law and New Wars, Christine Chinkin and Mary Kaldor

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Prosecuting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence at the ICTY, Serge Brammertz, Michelle Jarvis (eds)

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New publications in international humanitarian law and on the International Committee of the Red Cross