Webinar

Webinar recording - The Missing and their families. Awareness Raising, Lobbying and Advocacy

Author
ICRC
Publication Year
2020
Region
Europe and Central Asia / Near and Middle East
Location
Northern Ireland ; Cyprus ; Europe and Central Asia
Thematic Area
Families
Topic
Advocacy / Family Needs
Access
Open access

This third webinar in a series organized by the ICRC Missing Persons Project focused on advocacy and influencing. Wadad Halawani, from the Committee of Families of Kidnapped and Disappeared (CFKD) in Lebanon, Sevgul Uludag, Together We Can bi-communal family association in Cyprus and Sandra Peake from the Wave Trauma Center in Northern Ireland shared their powerful experiences of advocacy and collective actions by families of missing persons. Their work changed the way the issue of missing persons was perceived or supported in their contexts. Their accounts clearly showed how families often can be catalysts of change and influence public policies and legal frameworks.