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The Missing: Action to resolve the problem of people unaccounted for as a result of armed conflict or internal violence and to assist their families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

Extract

The objective of the Working Group was to have an overview of the Observations and Recommendations, to share considerations on this document's relationship to the process launched by the ICRC on The Missing, and to comment upon and clarify its text. The Working Group was not intended to be a forum for negotiations, nor the Observations and Recommendations to be a legally binding document. There was a common understanding that the Observations and Recommendations should not be interpreted in any way as undermining existing legal standards. The Observations and Recommendations should be seen as an operational tool containing practical measures.

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Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2003

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References

1 The Missing/Conf/02.2003/EN/1

2 ICRC/The Missing/01.2003/EN/10

3 For the purpose of these Observations and Recommendations, internal violence means internal disturbances (internal strife) and situations requiring a specifically neutral and independent institution and intermediary in conformity with the Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, article 5(2)(d) and 5(3), adopted by the Twenty-fifth International Conference of the Red Cross at Geneva in October 1986 and amended by the Twenty-sixth International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent at Geneva in December 1995.