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EU Special Representative and Head of the European Union Delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina Ambassador Lars-Gunnar Wigemark visited the Identification Coordination Facility (ICF) of the International Commission on Missing Persons […]

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, A.M.J. Sadiq, today hosted a meeting of ambassadors from Asia in The Hague to highlight the work of the International Commission on Missing Persons

  EU Special Representative and Head of the European Union Delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, together with the Director of Finance and Administration of the International Commission on

By Bojana Djokanovic As many as 30,000 persons are believed to have disappeared during Argentina’s “Dirty War” (a term coined in the United States but considered insulting in Argentina) between

Lejla Softic considers the impact of ethnic and cultural bias in media and policy responses to conflict and the issue of missing persons. On 22 March this year, at least

Lejla Hodzic describes how a 35-year old mystery was partly resolved through state-of-the-art DNA matching techniques. After 35 years of waiting, the Johnston family from British Columbia, Canada, have finally

Andreas Kleiser analyzes the essential role of resolving the issue of missing and disappeared persons in Sri Lanka as part of the country’s postwar recovery. ICMP and the Guatemalan Forensic

  Bojana Djokanovic examines new and hopeful prospects for accounting for tens of thousands of missing and disappeared persons in Colombia In September 2015 the Colombian government and the Revolutionary

(This article appeared in New Scientist) Bringing Radovan Karadzic to book for his part in war crimes in the former Yugoslavia included groundbreaking use of mass DNA evidence, says Thomas