Armenia: A fate not wished on anyone
Alla Hovhannisyan's father went missing when she was a young girl. Alla, now 31, is an opthamologist who participates in a support programme for relatives of missing people. She was inspired to …
Alla Hovhannisyan's father went missing when she was a young girl. Alla, now 31, is an opthamologist who participates in a support programme for relatives of missing people. She was inspired to …
Mrs Tsaghik is mother to Arshak Soghoyan who went missing during his military service in Nagorny Karabakh in the mid 1990s. Since then, Mrs Tsaghik has never stopped searching for her son. After he …
Lile Pilpanis brother went missing over 20 years ago. Devastated by the loss, Lile was left to support her mother and daughter single handed. Life is a little easier thanks to a small grant from the …
28-08-2015 Kampala (ICRC) – Families of thousands of missing persons in northern Uganda continue to live in the sorrowful ambiguity of the loss of their loved ones, unsure whether to wait for their …
28-08-2015 Geneva / Sana'a – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is seriously concerned about an increase in fighting in the city of Taiz. There has been indiscriminate shelling of …
A child waits for treatment. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Sam Spicer Battambang Regional Physical Rehabilitation Centre in Cambodia. CC BY-NC-ND / ICRC / Sam Spicer A staff member works on the finishing …
Disappearances are a reality. They happen for different reasons: during war, when people migrate, due to natural or man-made disasters. For the families of the disappeared, the anguish of uncertainty …
Over two decades have passed since the Bougainville Conflict broke out and an unknown number of the estimated 20,000 victims of the violence remain missing and unaccounted for. This brief glimpse …
Promoting the right to know Since the end of the civil war in 1990, the ICRC has been encouraging the Lebanese authorities at all levels to take concrete measures to clarify the fate of people …
During the 1975–1990 conflict, thousands of people went missing across Lebanon. The majority of them were young males in their twenties of various nationalities (Lebanese, Syrian, Palestinian and …
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