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Baghdad, 3 August 2024 – In August 2014, thousands of people across several governorates in Iraq suffered displacement, torture, abduction, and death at the hands of Da’esh. For a decade, survivors have sought justice and tried to rebuild their lives. A significant number of those who were abducted are still missing.
The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) stands in solidarity with the families of victims and reaffirms its commitment to assisting the Iraqi authorities in accounting for all missing persons and securing the rights of their families to truth, justice and reparation.
ICMP is providing technical, material, and financial support to state institutions in Iraq that are responsible for accounting for the missing. ICMP is also supporting civil society and families of the missing to help them access their rights and participate fully in the process of locating and identifying their loved ones.
Speaking today, Alexander Hug, the Head of ICMP’s Iraq Program, said ICMP is committed to supporting the authorities in their efforts to account for those who are still missing. “The work being done by the government, alongside ICMP, UNITAD, and other international organizations in Sinjar and across Iraq, has been and continues to be of paramount importance,” he said. “We stand shoulder to shoulder with the families in their grief, and we stand firm in our dedication to this mission. We earnestly urge all parties to continue supporting families of the missing as they seek truth and justice.”
Following decades of conflict, human rights violations, and atrocities, including those committed under the regime of Saddam Hussein, the war with Iran, the first Gulf War, and the crimes of Da’esh, tens of thousands of families from all of Iraq’s ethnic, religious, and national communities still do not know the fate of their relatives. Most have yet to secure their right to justice, truth and reparations.
Earlier this year, senior representatives of the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, along with members of the Iraqi parliament, representatives of key Iraqi institutions responsible for accounting for missing persons, and Iraqi NGOs took part in two days of constructive discussion, facilitated by ICMP, on steps towards an effective, long-term missing persons strategy.
ICMP’s Iraq Program is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office, and the Government of the Netherlands.
About ICMP
ICMP is a treaty-based intergovernmental organization with Headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. Its mandate is to secure the cooperation of governments and others in locating missing persons from conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, irregular migration and other causes and to assist them in doing so.
