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  One year after the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Luxembourg signed the Agreement on the Status and Functions of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), three […]

By Kathryne Bomberger, Two events in the first half of December helped to put the issue of missing persons back at the top of the policy agenda in Bosnia and

By Kevin Sullivan When the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) visited Peru in the middle of 2015, WEIGD Chief Ariel Dulitzky noted that – at the

Bojana Djokanovic considers the rising number of reported enforced disappearances in Egypt Following the events that accompanied the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the beginning of 2011, and

In mid-November 2015, two mass graves were discovered in the northwest of Iraq. They were believed to hold the remains of Yazidis executed by Islamic State. One grave contained 70

[:en] By Bojana Djokanovic ICMP was invited to participate and share expertise at a film screening and discussion organized in Washington on 8 December by the American Association for the

  By Kathryne Bomberger On 18 November El Salvador became the sixth country to sign the Agreement on the Status and Functions of the International Commission on Missing Persons. ICMP

[:en] Microsoft and ICMP announced in November that Microsoft has donated US$474,791 in software to ICMP. This will allow ICMP to maintain and enhance its Integrated Database Management System (iDMS)