Published : 01-12-2018
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 relatives’ conditions and whereabouts.
The promises were made during a meeting convened a few weeks 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
A meeting is convened between an ICRC staff member and the concerned relative who is seeking information about a missing person before a search operation is launched by the committee.
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 relatives’ conditions and whereabouts.
The promises were made during a meeting convened a few weeks 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
A meeting is convened between an ICRC staff member and the concerned relative who is seeking information about a missing person before a search operation is launched by the committee.
