In this video we hear from Soledad in Mexico whose brother went missing several years ago. He left the family village to seek work in the United States and was kidnapped and never heard of again …
Kamo Shaboyan was just a boy when his father disappeared, leaving his mother to take care of the family single-handed and without any news of his fate. Since she died, he has been working hard to …
In November 2014, a team of eight young field officers embarked on a journey across Sri Lanka. Their mission was to locate 392 families (out of 16,000) whose loved ones went missing during the …
Between 1986 and 2006, some 75,000 people were abducted in northern Uganda. The fate of several thousand remains unknown. The ICRC estimate that as many as 10,000 may still be missing. Their families …
27-08-2015 Geneva (ICRC) – Governments and civil society must do more to document the fate and whereabouts of people who disappear in conflicts or other circumstances and give stronger support to the …
27-08-2015 Port Moresby (ICRC) – Governments and civil societies around the world must do more to establish the fate and whereabouts of people who disappear in conflicts or other circumstances and …
My name is Amalya Yolchiyeva. My brother, Pashayev Pasha, went missing on 24 April 1994. I was only 12 at the time but I still remember vividly how my family started the long and painful search for …
Zahr-el-Ban last saw her husband three and a half years ago. She is a Syrian refugee who has found shelter in Lebanon, and since he disappeared, she has struggled to care for her two small children. …
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies across Europe are publishing photos of people looking for their missing relatives , online and in posters, in the hope of reconnecting families. This video …
27-08-2015 Damascus (ICRC) – Health-care needs are growing in north-eastern Syria as a result of the fighting, including a bomb explosion in Qamishli on 19 August. Medical supplies have been …
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