Partners
INTERPOL
The International Criminal Police Organization
In 2007, ICMP and INTERPOL signed a cooperation agreement to provide assistance in identifying missing persons following disasters. Since then, ICMP has worked with INTERPOL on an additional protocol that would create a permanent platform for Disaster Victim Identification (DVI).
ICTY
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
ICMP has worked with the ICTY since ICMP’s inception. In November 2006, ICMP and the ICTY made the necessary arrangements in order for ICMP’s work to be used in trials before the ICTY. The arrangement acknowledges necessary safeguards for the use of personal and confidential information on missing persons and their families.
United Nations (UN)
Since 1996, ICMP has worked closely on missing persons cases with a variety of UN entities.
- United Nations Development Program (UNDP) – (Cyprus, Colombia)
- United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR)
- UN Peacekeeping Operations – (BIH, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Iraq, and Libya)
- UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
ICMP is also exploring avenues for cooperation with:
European Union (EU)
- The ICMP works closely with the EU particularly on projects in the Western Balkans, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine, many of which receive EU financial support.
ENFSI
European Network of Forensic Science Institutes
ENSFI aims to harmonize and develop the practice of forensic genetics from both a casework and research perspective, with representatives from all European countries, and participation by Europe’s most prominent forensic geneticists. ICMP’s regular involvement has served to establish ICMP’s reputation as the operator of one of the world’s most effective missing persons DNA laboratories, and has integrated ICMP in the European forensic genetics community.
HRC
Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley
ICMP has worked with the HRC at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law on a variety of projects including the provision of assistance to an El Salvadorian non-governmental organization Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos (Search for Missing Children) to provide assistance with DNA testing, kinship analysis and database design for the identification of missing children from El Salvador.
ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross
ICMP has had a relationship with the ICRC since 1996 in program areas including the Western Balkans, Libya and Iraq. ICMP has also notably contributed to many ICRC publications on the issue of missing persons.
OSCE
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
ICMP works closely in relevant mission areas with the the OSCE on human rights and war crimes issues.
CoE
Council of Europe
ICMP advises the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE on an ad hoc basis and also works with the CoE in relevant mission areas.
Benetech
ICMP has partnered with Benetech a non-profit organization that explores the uses of technology to create positive social change.
PHR
Physicians for Human Rights
ICMP has maintained a long-standing working relationship with PHR in various program areas since 1996.
Swiss Peace
ICMP has worked with Swiss Peace on projects in the Western Balkans and the Caucasus.
