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The Hague, June 23, 2026 – The Annual Report of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), published today, documents the evolving global effort to address the issue of missing persons and marks ICMP’s 30th anniversary in 2026.
In 2025, ICMP maintained programs in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, the Western Balkans, the South Caucasus, and Vietnam, and supported Chile, Brazil, and other countries in strengthening their capacity to account for the missing. Across all its operations, ICMP continued to emphasize the critical need for states to locate missing persons in a manner consistent with the rule of law and to secure the rights of families of the missing to truth, justice, and reparations.
Key developments during 2025 included expanded support in Ukraine, cooperation with the new National Commission for Missing Persons in Syria, and continued collaboration with partners in Iraq and Libya, as well as further strengthening of missing persons capacity in the Western Balkans and enhancement of identification programs with authorities in Vietnam.
In her introduction to the Annual Report, ICMP Director-General Kathryne Bomberger notes that: “Large-scale disappearances undermine social cohesion, erode trust in institutions, and obstruct recovery and reconciliation—making the resolution of the issue essential to restoring and maintaining global peace and stability.”
Ambassador Knut Vollebaek, Chair of the Board of Commissioners, highlights ICMP’s role in helping countries “build institutional and legislative frameworks and apply effective technical and data systems,” as well as its support for efforts “to strengthen civil society engagement in the missing persons process,” stressing that “these are complex tasks that require sustained funding.”
The Annual Report provides accessible information on ICMP’s core programs, country operations, and financial and funding status, as well as descriptions of initiatives such as the Standing Capacity for Crisis Response (SCCR), designed to enhance ICMP’s ability to prepare for and respond to crises worldwide in which large numbers of people go missing.
Entering its fourth decade, ICMP reaffirms its commitment to supporting governments in implementing effective missing persons strategies and assisting families in securing truth, justice, and reparations.
ICMP is grateful to the donors and partners whose support is indispensable to the implementation of its global mandate. In 2025, ICMP’s principal donors were the European Union, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Switzerland.
About ICMP
ICMP is a treaty-based intergovernmental organization headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands. Its mandate is to secure the cooperation of governments and others in locating persons missing as a result of armed conflict, human rights abuses, natural and man-made disasters, and other involuntary causes, and to assist them in doing so.
