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Central Tracing Agency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

Maintaining contact between captives and their families; seeking persons who are missing; reuniting families dispersed by events (international conflicts, civil wars, internal disturbances)—such are the main duties of the ICRC Central Tracing Agency in Geneva, where it maintains its principal working instrument, a card-index system of more than 45 million entries. The Agency also sets up, when circumstances require, offices which act as its correspondents in other countries.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1972

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