Kathmandu/Geneva (ICRC) – On the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August 2008), the International Committee of the Red Cross is appealing to the government of Nepal to clarify the fate of those who went missing during the country's 10-year internal conflict.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is marking the International Day of the Disappeared on 30 August by calling on the international community to renew its commitment to addressing the plight of missing persons and their families.

The ICRC has welcomed the decision of the Nepalese government to establish a Commission on the Missing

Kabul / Geneva (ICRC) – Heavy fighting in the Chamkani district of Paktia province on 18 May has reportedly left many opposition fighters dead.

Geneva – (ICRC) Countless combatants and civilians go missing during armed conflicts. Their families suffer terribly, not least because of not knowing what has happened.

Kathmandu/Geneva (ICRC) – The list of names of more than 800 persons reported missing by their families is to be published tomorrow, 15th February, in Nepal by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in an attempt to obtain information on their fate.

Paris/Geneva (ICRC) – "No war, no emergency, no national security imperative can justify enforced disappearance", said Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), at the ceremony to open for signature the International Convention for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance.

The adoption of the Convention against enforced disappearance is a sign of hope for the future.

Geneva (ICRC) – The text of the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance was approved today by the recently established UN Human Rights Council.

The ICRC has expressed concern that 10 years after the signing of the Dayton peace agreement the fate of some 14,000 persons missing in connection with the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina remains unresolved.

The working group on people missing in Kosovo met today in Belgrade.

The ICRC welcomes the news that drafting of a convention protecting people from enforced disappearance was completed on 23 September by the Working Group to elaborate a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance.

Geneva (ICRC) – Ahead of International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for renewed attention to one of the most serious humanitarian problems caused by armed conflict – the fate of missing persons and the suffering of their families.

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today hosted the 27th meeting of the Tripartite Commission set up to ascertain the fate of persons missing in connection with the 1990-1991 Gulf War. The ICRC has chaired both the Tripartite Commission and its Technical Sub-Committee since they were created in 1991 and 1994 respectively.

The ICRC has just released a study on the rights and needs of families in Serbia and Montenegro whose relatives went missing during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The study was launched in Belgrade at an event attended by government officials, families' organizations, journalists and representatives of the national Red Cross Society.

Geneva (ICRC) - Representatives of Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States today took part in the 46th meeting, in Kuwait, of the Technical Sub-Committee for missing in connection with the 1990 -1991 Gulf War.

The ICRC has called on the international community to do more to tackle the problem of persons who go missing in connection with armed conflict or internal violence.

The working group on missing persons set up as part of the direct dialogue that has been initiated between Pristina and Belgrade met for the first time in Pristina on 9 March. During the meeting, which was chaired by ICRC representative François Stamm, the parties shared their views on the work ahead.

The ICRC has accepted an invitation from the UN secretary-general’s special representative for Kosovo, Mr Harri Holkeri, to chair a working group on missing persons. The working group is one of four set up as part of the process of direct dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina government representatives initiated in Vienna in October 2003.

At the ICRC’s initiative, mental health professionals from the Georgian Centre for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, a non-governmental organization, provided psychological counselling for the families of missing persons for the first time on 21-22 January.

A high-level working group chaired by the ICRC revealed a new commitment from all sides to provide the families of the missing with answers during its meeting on 14 October. Republika Srpska provided information on 27 cases and Bosnia-Herzegovina on 24.

In the past six weeks the ICRC has reunited 100 lost children with relatives in and around Monrovia. More than 200 have been registered since fighting began in the capital and at least half are under 12 years of age.