International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP)
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Founded
1996-06-29 Lyon France
History
ICMP was created at the initiative of US President Bill Clinton in 1996 at the G-7 Summit. in Lyon, France.
It spearheaded the efforts by the authorities in the former Yugoslavia that have made it possible to account for more than 70 percent of the 40,000 persons who went missing in the region as a result of the conflicts of the 1990s. In 2004, supporting States expanded ICMP’s mandate to cover the issue of missing persons throughout the world. The 2014 Agreement on the Status and Functions of the International Commission on Missing Persons (the ICMP Agreement), which established ICMP as an intergovernmental organization with Headquarters in The Hague, has nine States Parties: Afghanistan, Chile, Cyprus, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Serbia, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and two signatory states: Belgium and El Salvador. ICMP completed the process of establishing its Headquarters in The Hague in 2017.
Aims
Help governments guild rule-of-law institutions that successfully and impartially search for and identify missing persons; support efforts to develop legislation to enable families of the missing to assert their rights.
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Board of Commissioners; Conference of State Parities; Panel of Experts; Financial Committee; Cross Cutting Programs; Director General.
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UIA Org ID
XE4141
Last News
2022
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