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Argentina

The ICRC has been operating in Argentina since the 1970s. Our work focuses on the identification of unidentified Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin Cemetery in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. We also foster adoption and promotion of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in the armed forces and in the academic communities, and support the National Committee for the Implementation of IHL. In addition, we cooperate with the Argentine Red Cross.

This country is covered by the regional delegation in Brazil.
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Facts & figures

  • 358
    relatives of Argentine ex-combatants visited their burial mounds on the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in 1991 for the first time
  • 11,692
    prisoners of war were visited and registered by the ICRC during the conflict of the South Atlantic
  • 800
    Red Cross messages were delivered during the South Atlantic conflict
  • 11
    expatriate ICRC delegates, including 3 doctors, worked in the Malvinas/Falklands conflict