Reference :
V-P-CH-E-01606
Date :
24/06/2025
Caption :
Geneva. Symposium on New Technologies and the Missing, including Victims of Enforced Disappearance. H.E. Mr. Marc Bichler, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the United Nations Office in Geneva, giving an opening keynote speech at the plenary session
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
ICRC website, article 29.08.2025 (extract)
In 2024, the Family Links Network, which brings together the ICRC and 191 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, worked with affected families to locate more than 16,000 people and reunite more than 7,000 people with their families. Every minute, the network helps four people that have been separated from their families by conflict, violence, migration and disasters to call their loved ones and every hour it clarifies the fate and whereabouts of two missing people.
To support the ongoing search efforts, the Symposium on New Technologies and the Missing, including Victims of Enforced Disappearance co-organized by the ICRC Central Tracing Agency and the ICRC Global Cyber Hub, the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), Luxembourg Aid & Development, and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in association with the Global Alliance for the Missing, convened over 100 representatives from state authorities, search practitioners, investigative institutions, academia, family associations, prosecutors, NGOs, and the private sector.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
6929x4619
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
