MISSING PERSONS
A Handbook for Parliamentarians
Handbook for Parliamentarians N°17 • 2009
ICRC
MISSING PERSONS
A Handbook for Parliamentarians
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[The Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union is]
aware of the need for States toadopt a comprehensive national policy on missing persons encompassing all the meas-ures needed to forestall disappearances, elucidate the fate of missing persons, meet the needs of the families of missing persons, acknowledge the facts and determineresponsibility for events that have led to disappearances in situations of armed conflict and internal violence and in the case of enforced disappearances
”.115th IPU Assembly, Resolution on “Missing Persons”October 2006
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MISSING PERSONS - A Handbook for Parliamentarians
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This practical guide was drawn up on the initiative of and with contributions frommembers of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Committee to Promote Respect for Inter-national Humanitarian Law. It is largely based on the Report on Missing Persons pre-sented by Mrs Brigitta Gadient (Swiss Parliament) and Mr Leonardo Nicolini(Parliament of Uruguay) at the 115thAssembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. TheInter-Parliamentary Union Secretariat and the International Committee of the RedCross also helped towards the publication of this guide.
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This manual, elaborated jointly by the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) and the ICRC, is composed of three sections. The first chapter contextualises the issue of persons reported missing following an armed conflict or a situation of internal…
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