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14-09-2007  Photo Collection  
Peru: turning the right to know into reality
Years after the end of the conflict that rocked Peru in the 1980s, many families still do not know what happened to relatives who disappeared. The ICRC is supporting efforts by a number of State and civil society bodies to end the suffering of these families and to turn their right to know into reality.

© CICR /B. Heger/

Relatives of missing persons – mainly women – camping near Accomarca while they take part in exhumation work. When somebody disappears, the consequences go beyond the emotional. Often it is the man who goes missing, the head of the family. His wife is left behind to look after the children on her own, under difficult economic conditions.




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