Book

The missing files: the experience of the International Committee of the Red Cross

In: Derek Congram (ed.), 'Missing persons : multidisciplinary perspectives on the disappeared', Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2016. PP. 60-73
English version
Author
Shuala M. Drawdy, Cheryl Katzmarzyk
Publication Year
2016
Region
Global
Thematic Area
Forensics
Topic
DNA Analysis / Family Needs / Identification / Recovery of remains / Excavation / Exhumation
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Currently, the ICRC Forensic Services serves as a reference worlwide in the application of forensic science to promoting humanitarian principles, ethics, and law, and forensic practice to meet the needs of victims. This chapter aims at showing the evolution of humanitarian forensic actions and the approach of the ICRC.

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