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Missing in Lebanon: Report on the Needs of their Families

18 May 2015
Decades later, the fate of thousands of people who went missing in connection with armed conflicts in Lebanon still haunts their families. The findings of a report by the ICRC showed that even many years after the disappearance, what families require...
Report
Report

Missing Persons – A hidden tragedy

18 May 2015
People have gone missing as long as men have been fighting wars. The plight of people missing in armed conflict and the suffering of their families has been a consistent concern to the ICRC. This specially commissioned report, written by an independe...
Report
Other type of resource

Restoring Family Links Strategy

18 May 2015
This brochure contains the Restoring Family Links (RFL) Strategy of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and implementation plan (2008-2018) as adopted by Resolution 4 of the 2007 Council of Delegates. Also included is a selection o...
Other type of resource
Guidance material

Accompanying the families of missing persons: A practical handbook

18 May 2015
The ICRC has played an active role since 1991 in supporting the families of missing persons and advocating respect for their right to know the fate of their relatives. During the conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, families filed ove...
Guidance material
Awareness material

The need to know: restoring links between dispersed family members

18 May 2015
This publication explains how the Family Links network operates and why its services are so important. It describes situations in which family separations occur, and the many ways in which the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement support...
Awareness material
Awareness material

Living with absence: Helping the families of the missing

18 May 2015
Many people go missing as a result of conflict, natural and man-made disasters, other humanitarian crises, and migration. Disappearance, dreadful enough for the individuals concerned, means anguish for their families, left in limbo over their loved o...
Awareness material
Case Study, Report

Viet Nam Case Study Report: How Law and Regulation Support Disaster Risk Reduction

18 May 2015
Viet Nam is prone to many different types of natural hazards. They are mainly hydro-meteorological, such as recurring floods and storms, but also include low to moderate risks of droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires, cold and heat waves, and...
Case Study, Report, Disaster Law
Other type of resource

Nepal Earthquake Response: Lessons for operational agencies

13 May 2015
In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, this paper looks at lessons drawn from previous comparable disasters and seeks to provide invaluable information and assistance to the operational agencies responding to the crisis. Seventeen Le...
Other type of resource, Earthquake
Guidance material

10 Lessons from Fukushima: Reducing risks and protecting communities from nuclear disasters

12 May 2015
While it is very important to share the experiences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, people on the receiving end of such advice cannot take appropriate action unless they understand how to anticipate and prevent the actual disaster at the root of a...
Guidance material
Research

A Critical Disconnect: The role of SAARC in building the DRM capacities in South Asian countries

12 May 2015
This study considers the different elements of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation’s (SAARC) DMC’s efforts over the last decade and to assess their impact in supporting the national capacities of member states. This study eva...
Research

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