[op. 7] Urges parties to armed conflict to collect, protect, and manage all relevant data and documents on missing persons as a result of armed conflict while respecting privacy, consistent with applicable national and international law; [op. 8] Urges parties to armed conflict to search for and recover the dead as a result of armed conflict, identify them, including by recording all available information and mapping the location of burial sites, to respect the remains of the dead, including by respecting and properly maintaining their graves, and to return them, whenever possible, to their relatives, consistent with applicable obligations under international humanitarian law and human rights law; as it relates to personal data protection, to refrain from deliberate relocation of remains from mass graves, to avoid excavation and recovery efforts by untrained persons that result in the damage or destruction of human remains, and to ensure that, in any exhumation or recovery effort, data possibly leading to the identification of the deceased person is adequately collected and recorded; [op. 9] Urges parties to armed conflict to establish national information bureaus or other mechanisms, upon the outbreak of a conflict, to exchange information on detainees and civilians belonging to an adverse party, to transmit such information to that party, with the support of the Central Tracing Agency as a neutral intermediary, where appropriate, and to open enquiries regarding these persons;
Protection of civilians in armed conflict - Missing persons in armed conflict
Theme
- I. GENERAL PROTECTION CONCERNS PERTAINING TO THE CONFLICT-AFFECTED POPULATION
- A. Protection of, and assistance to, the conflict-affected population
- Missing persons and their families