Almost 90% of the victims of #Srebrenica #Genocide have been identified through ICMP’s pioneering use of #DNA. All facts and figures on #BosnianGenocide available at: bit.ly/2XfdBWL
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In Srebrenica on 11 July, 30 victims of the 1995 Genocide will be buried. Their bodies have been exhumed from clandestine graves and identified. At least six of those to be buried this year were teenagers when they were murdered. On average, seven or eight separate DNA match… Show more
DG & Ukraine’s Prosecutor General discussed this week ICMP’s program to help the authorities in #Ukraine establish an effective long-term strategy to account for 1000s of #missingpersons as a result of the conflict. bit.ly/3a9aoU3
Students alleged to have been victims of EnforcedDisappearance in #Balochistan. #Pakistan@BalochistanPost reports. bit.ly/2riOOCR
. reports that in just six months, 371 people have disappeared and 158 have been killed across six districts of #Balochistan in #Pakistan. #MissingPersons #Disappearance buff.ly/2GZKX5U
ICMP DG had a virtual coordination meeting w/ Ukraine’s Prosecutor General & the Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky to discuss ICMP’s assistance to Ukraine to help account for #missingpersons as a result of the ongoing conflict.
#ForcedDisappearances in #Pakistan awareness campaign launched in #London #TheMissing #HumanRights buff.ly/2IpGYjX
At the Profiles of the Missing - Voices of Ukrainian Families of the Missing earlier this week, Her Majesty , who is an ICMP Commissioner, highlighted the gender aspect of the missing persons issue. “In conflict – when most of the missing are men – it falls to #women to… Show more
#Turkey: Families still looking for missing relatives after unknown men believed to be connected with #Turkey’s security forces abducted them last February. #MissingPersons buff.ly/2GCvTuT
H.M. , Commissioner of ICMP, is moved by the courage of families. Not to revenge, but to justice. #ICMP20
On this day, 20 years ago, ICMP issued first DNA match report identifying the body of a 15-year old boy disappeared at #Srebrenica. This marked start of a revolutionary process using advanced database & DNA tech to identify large numbers of missing from armed conflict & HR abuses
#Pakistan: report by #Balochistan groups cites “partial details of 485 cases of #enforceddisappearances during the first half of the year”. @BHROrganization #icmp #missing bit.ly/2LY7SSA
Srebrenica, 11 July 2023: The remains of 30 victims of the #SrebrenicaGenocide were buried at the Potocari Memorial Cemetery near Srebrenica today.
Attending today’s ceremony at Potocari, together with staff from ICMP’s Western Balkans Program, Director-General Kathryne… Show more
#Pakistan: rise of disappearances in #Balochistan, where “thousands of people have gone missing from the region since the early 2000s”. #TheMissing buff.ly/2GZKX5U
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the #Srebrenica #Genocide, ICMP, & BIH artist Šejla Kamerić an art project that casts light on the scientific process of finding and identifying war victims, #missingpersons for #truth & #justice buff.ly/3iQLoAP
A pleasure to welcome today the Dutch Ambassador to #Armenia at ICMP’s HQ & DNA Lab. ICMP’s work & its proposed activities in the context of Armenia were discussed during the meeting. Accounting for #missingpersons contributes to peace & security.
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“Efficient data collection will play an indispensable role in the process,” DG said after her meeting w/ Ms . “1000s of Ukrainians have been displaced, the authorities will have to reach out to families in different parts of the country & beyond."
. reports on the 3,000 #missing girls and women who #disappeared during the #Yezidi #genocide in #Iraq. #icmp bit.ly/2LY7SSA
Thanks for the shout-out Emir. 11,000 persons are still #missing from the regional conflicts - 7,000 of them from #BiH. The challenge in BiH and specifically #Srebrenica is finding the #massgraves & clandestine sites where the mortal remains are hidden. 1/4
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A specific policy proposal: both national and international actors should use this opportunity to bolster the work of the Missing Persons Institute BiH, and equally importantly @TheICMP. We need to complete the search for missing persons in order to consider moving forward. Now. twitter.com/suljagicemir1/…
Relatives of missing #Baloch people protest in #Quetta city in #Pakistan to demand release of family members they say have been #abducted by security forces. buff.ly/32Hquvc
"#في_ظل_غيابهم: بلّغ عن الأشخاص المفقودين" حملة جديدة من ICMP# تشجع السوريين على الإبلاغ عن #المفقودين إلى مركز الاستفسار عن المفقودين (OIC#) التابع للجنة الدولية لشؤون المفقودين كجزء من الجهود للمساعدة في العثور على المفقودين في #سوريا. bit.ly/3vD3E6F
At a 39th session of @UNHRC side event, activist Hatim Baloch spoke about the human rights violation faced by the Baloch people since Pakistan occupation and their #enforceddisappearances from the region. #missingpersons #dissapeared bit.ly/2Q6jodk
.@BHROrganization and have published a report highlighting cases of #enforceddisappearance and #extrajudicialkillings in #Pakistan. #icmp #missing #disappeared bit.ly/2LY7SSA
Together w/ Iraq’s Amb to NL , DG met Iraqi brothers, Haider & Ahmed al-Mousawi, who were separated for 40 yrs by Saddam Hussein’s regime, each thought the other was dead. They reunited after Haider’s social media post in memory of his brother went viral.
Munira Subasic of Mothers of #Srebrenica tells families of Syria’s #missingpersons: “We fought in our own way and we didn’t stop even after 25 years … we did not give up and I beg all #Syrian families not to give up.” #DayoftheDisappeared buff.ly/2FXs8SZ
The DNA-led process developed in Bosnia and Herzegovina to identify victims of the Srebrenica Genocide and other crimes has contributed to a fundamental change in the way that countries address issues of truth and justice in war, the Director-General of the International… Show more
#ICMP and signed today a Memorandum of Understanding to implement a series of activities throughout 2022 designed to support the families of persons who went missing as a result of conflict and #humanrights abuses. For more info: bit.ly/3lROQ12
Two victims of the #Srebrenica #Genocide whose remains were exhumed near Zvornik from the #Liplje and #Kamenica #MassGraves have been identified using #DNA. #MissingPersons #Forensics buff.ly/36dRjYW
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In the face of a huge surge in the number of missing persons, Ukraine “must develop a more efficient and more humane state strategy on missing persons so that people facing this terrible situation will not be alone,” Nobel Laureate said today at a meeting organized by… Show more
On #MissingChildrensDay, #ICMP expresses its support for families everywhere who are looking for missing loved ones. ICMP is dedicated to helping gov'ts to take effective steps to account for #missingpersons & helping families & other stakeholders to participate in this effort.
The resolution adopted by the 77th session of the General Assembly this week establishing the Independent Institution on #MissingPersons in #Syria is a “testament to the relentless efforts of #Syrian Civil Society & families of the missing,” the Director-General of #ICMP… Show more
. has collected 22,306 #DNA reference samples helping to identify #missingpersons from #Srebrenica #Genocide. More info available at: bit.ly/2u0060n
Public Radio International reports concern by #Pakistan #HumanRights Commission and international #NGOs over the #enforceddisappearance and treatment of #Pashtuns #icmp #disappeared #missing bit.ly/2wPDeS2
القرار الذي اعتمدته الدورة السابعة والسبعون للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة هذا الأسبوع بإنشاء المؤسسة المستقلة المعنية بالمفقودين في #سورية هو "شهادة على الجهود الحثيثة للمجتمع المدني السوري وعائلات #المفقودين" قالت المديرة العامة للجنة الدولية لشؤون المفقودين، كاثرين بومبرغر،… Show more
تم دفن ٤١ رفات متعرف عليها مؤخرا لضحايا جرائم داعش في اب ٢٠١٤ اليوم في شمال #العراق في قرية #كوجو في قضاء #سنجار. قامت ICMP# والى جانب بمساعدة اسر المفقودين من المانيا للسفر الى كوجو لحضور مراسم الدفن بشكل شخصي. bit.ly/3DyFwFq
Group picture of the meeting yesterday in #London. #PrinceofWales was notably interested in briefing #MissingPersons families
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For 25 years ICMP has assisted states around the world to fulfil their legal obligations to account for all missing persons in line with #RuleofLaw and to secure the rights of victims’ families to truth, #justice and reparations.
On #HumanRightsDay, #ICMP is bringing together #Yazidi families of the missing, to discuss the issue of #missingpersons from Da’esh crimes & to commemorate those who Disappeared. Photography exhibition “The Women Who Beat ISIS” organized by
with ICMP's support.
#Spain: unidentified victims from the #SpanishCivilWar reburied after 80 years. #MissingPersons #Disappearances #TheMissing #Rights bit.ly/2FSPVRL
The first issue of #ICMP's Global Report on Missing Persons, published with the support of the United Kingdom, examines how the issue of #missingpersons is being addressed around the world. For more information, the report can be found here: bit.ly/31WQAzd
. on the 24th anniversary of #Srebrenica #Genocide, Director General said: “It is essential to continue efforts to account for those who are still missing and to bring those who were responsible to justice”. #Accountability buff.ly/2XDdyZ0
Efforts to find those who remain #missing from #Srebrenica #Genocide must continue, ICMP WBalkans Head Matthew Holliday says in oped. “Sustainable peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region depends on them.” buff.ly/326xvIx
#Myanmar: publishes reconstruction of communal killings of #Rohingya in the village #InnDin in #Rakhine in September reut.rs/2ERNWLn
62 #Yazidi victims have been identified in #Kocho, #Iraq, Iraqi Medico-Legal, #MassGrave Directorates & #UNITAD announced at a press conference yesterday. Fawaz Abdulabbas, Deputy Head of #ICMP Iraq Program, highlighted ICMP's role in locating & identifying Yazidi #missingpersons
On #HumanRightsDay, #ICMP reminds families of the missing of their rights, which states must uphold.
Family Rights Guidebook: bit.ly/3haM7AN #IHRD2022 #UDHR #missingpersons #humanrights
"The ICMP assisted in the investigation of the Srebrenica Genocide & provided irrefutable evidence of identity of almost 7,000 of the more than 8,000 victims. As the investigation continues, more persons will be found,” ICMP DG #Srebrenica27 icmp.int/news/srebrenic
Following the sinking of a fishing boat packed with #migrants off the Greek coast on 14 June, the authorities in Greece & other countries have an obligation under int'l & domestic law to take effective steps to locate & identify victims & in due course repatriate their remains.… Show more
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Prime Ministers of nine EU member states and five Western Balkan countries have signed a joint declaration citing efforts to account for remaining #missingpersons from conflicts of the 1990s, at #WBSummitLondon. @AlanDuncanMP
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بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للمفقودين، أصدرت اللجنة الدولية لشؤون #المفقودين دليلًا لعائلات المفقودين، يشرح بالتفصيل حقوق العائلات. تم تمويل هذا المنشور من قبل الاتحاد الأوروبي. رابط المنشور: bit.ly/3R2NjTl
#ICMP #اليوم_العالمي_للمفقودين
This Friday is International Day of the #Disappeared, an important opportunity to examine the global challenge of #missingpersons and the strategies that can meet this challenge in an effective way. bit.ly/2HqbY2A
In a new report, explores how #Lidar technology could be used to find #MassGraves in #BIH. “Lidar may be effective if one already has an idea of where to look, at most a few square kilometres,” says ICMP #forensic coordinator Sandra Sostaric.
The British Ambassador in The Hague, , & ICMP DG today discussed efforts to account for #missingpersons around the world, incl UK-supported ICMP programs in #Syria & #WesternBalkans. Discussions were followed by a tour of the ICMP #DNA lab.
At the #ICMP HQ today, DG & Dunja Mijatović discussed the ongoing efforts to advance the search for the remaining #MissingPersons from the conflict to deliver #justice to the families of the missing in line with #RuleOfLaw.
On the Intl Day of the Disappeared, ICMP, with support, has published Q&A guide 4 families of missing in #WesternBalkans. Listen to the message by ICMP WB Head M Holliday, and S Alekic, Chair of Reg, Coord. of families of the missing.
ICMP welcomes the #German government’s decision today to accede to the ICMP Agreement as an important recognition of ICMP work and the urgent need to address the global challenge of #missingpersons.
Today is International Day of the Disappeared. Tweet and follow #dayofthedisappeared
We’re hiring a Coordination Officer in #Baghdad. Apply by June 26th! #missingpersons #jobs #Iraq ow.ly/yf3q30cOhH3
In 2018 nearly 613,000 Americans reported missing, with more than 424,000 of them under the age of 18. #MissingPersons #Accountability buff.ly/2X5W2bo
Criminal activity is behind the vast majority of disappearances – the justice system must lead efforts to investigate disappearances and prosecute those responsible. #StandUp4HumanRights #ICMP4HumanRights
A shout-out on International Day of #WomenAndGirlsInScience for #ICMP’s Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology team, who are supporting site investigations all over the world and have helped to resolve thousands of #missingpersons cases.
30 #Srebrenica victims will be buried today at the Memorial in #Potočari 28 years after the #Genocide. icmp.int/?resources=sre
#ICMP & the have jointly organized the second meeting of #DNA experts on DNA analysis of #missingmigrants & unidentified #humanremains. The meeting was held today at ICMP Headquarters in #TheHague. For more information: bit.ly/2D37ImX
#ICMP's first edition of the Global Report on #Missingpersons, published today, ahead of the International #DayoftheDisappeared, with the support of the .
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At a meeting in Podgorica this week the Missing Persons Group (MPG), which consists of BiH, Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia and Montenegro, agreed on a range of measures to reinvigorate regional cooperation to account for persons missing as a result of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.
Genuine investigation of fate of #missingpersons is part of judicial guarantees of all victims #HumanRightsDay
Iraq’s newly-appointed Ambassador in The Hague, H.E. Dr. Hisham Al-Alawi, visited HQ today. Director-General briefed Ambassador on ICMP’s global operations and its program in #Iraq, where it has worked for more than a decade. bit.ly/2ClHUn0
هذا الأسبوع، قامت اللجنة الدولية لشؤون المفقودين والسفارة الهولندية في #العراق بزيارة قرية كوجو ومعهد صولاغ في منطقة #سنجار، لمناقشة قضية #المفقودين #الأيزيديين في العراق و ضرورة تأمين حقوق الضحايا لمعرفة الحقيقة وتحقيق العدالة والحصول على التعويضات.
To mark the #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared on 30 August, #ICMP is highlighting the rights of families of #missingpersons. Families have the right not to be discriminated against on any grounds, such as #gender, religion, ethnicity, or political affiliation.
20 Years ago today: “The Commission will help to promote a full and timely accounting of the missing” #ICMP20
On the International Day of Peace, #ICMP calls on States to uphold their responsibility to locate all #missingpersons and investigate the circumstances of their disappearance regardless of ethnic, religious or national background. #PeaceDay
Noura Ghazi, a #Syrian lawyer whose husband went missing in 2015 says: “Every nation has its own different experience, or its own different context, but the suffering is the same” in an exchange with families of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s #missingpersons. buff.ly/2FXs8SZ
An effective strategy is urgently needed to account for #missing and #disappearedpersons from the #Syria conflict. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/3OtYOSc
#ICMP DG : “Germany has been a key partner in our work to ensure that States uphold their responsibility to locate all #missingpersons & investigate the circumstances of their disappearance regardless of ethnic, religious or national background.”
This week, we think of the suffering of #Yazidis who were attacked by Da’esh in #Sinjar in 2014. Many victims are missing – their families have a right to #justice. ICMP support to Iraqi authorities’ efforts to account for #missingpersons includes excavations of #massgraves
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#Bosnia and Herzegovina, with ICMP assistance, has uncovered 3,000 clandestine mass graves and identified more than 75% of the 32,000 missing after the conflict, using methods in line with the #RuleOfLaw that enables #accountability.
#Germany supports #ICMP's mission to help #Ukraine to find all #missingpersons from the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and contributes EUR 7,6 million to ICMP's new initiative. For more info: bit.ly/3haaPAO
Accounting for #missingpersons, including victims of #enforceddisappearance is an integral part of the global effort to end violence against #women & uphold fundamental #humanrights, #ICMP DG said today. Statement: bit.ly/3F1xLf4 #16daysofactivism2022
On the Int'l #DayofNonViolence, ICMP reaffirms the underlying principle that accounting for the missing - regardless of culture, nationality or religion – is an investment in peace. Finding persons who have gone missing as a result of conflict prevents the recurrence of violence.
The fight of and are highlighted in this article. ICMP is proud to support their fight, including by building a central record for all of #Syria’s #missingpersons.
ICMP is proud to announce that has awarded ICMP Director General with an honor for "invaluable leadership in ensuring that Bosnia's missing are found and identified" at today's gala event held online.
