Published : 19-11-2018
The International Committee of the Red Cross vowed to take serious measures in order to provide the families of missing and detained people in Syria with the needed information about their conditions and whereabouts.
The promises were made during a meeting convened a couple of days earlier between AGPS representatives and a delegation of the International Red Cross Committee in the latter’s headquarters in Beirut. Such measures make part of the ICRC endeavors to reunite families who have been ripped apart by escalating violence in war-stricken zones.
In situations of armed conflicts, family reunification is a right under international law. The fourth Geneva Convention clearly states that governments should take all possible steps to facilitate the reunification of separated families.
Concerned families are required to fill a form in order to obtain information about a missing relative. The form is available on the following link:
https://familylinks.icrc.org/en/pages/howwework/reuniting-families.aspx
AGPS documented the detention of over 1,711 Palestinian refugees in Syrian state jails. 315 other refugees have gone missing in war-ragged Syria.
The International Committee of the Red Cross vowed to take serious measures in order to provide the families of missing and detained people in Syria with the needed information about their conditions and whereabouts.
The promises were made during a meeting convened a couple of days earlier between AGPS representatives and a delegation of the International Red Cross Committee in the latter’s headquarters in Beirut. Such measures make part of the ICRC endeavors to reunite families who have been ripped apart by escalating violence in war-stricken zones.
In situations of armed conflicts, family reunification is a right under international law. The fourth Geneva Convention clearly states that governments should take all possible steps to facilitate the reunification of separated families.
Concerned families are required to fill a form in order to obtain information about a missing relative. The form is available on the following link:
https://familylinks.icrc.org/en/pages/howwework/reuniting-families.aspx
AGPS documented the detention of over 1,711 Palestinian refugees in Syrian state jails. 315 other refugees have gone missing in war-ragged Syria.
