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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: Looking for answers: accounting for the separated, missing and dead in international armed conflicts
Description: Armed conflicts affecting all regions of the world today continue to result in the separation of families and in people going missing and dying. Such heart wrenching loss also occurs in other situations of violence, in disasters and along migratory routes. In 2021, the ICRC registered more than 29,000 new cases of missing people, bringing the current number of cases we are following in 2022 to 173,800 – a 75% increase over the past five years. Many decades-old cases remain unresolved the world over.
In this post, ICRC legal advisers Helen Obregón and Ximena Londoño shed light on some of the particularly rich – but not su...