scholarly journals Towards safer mining: the role of modelling software to find missing persons after a mine collapse

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
F Cawood ◽  
◽  
H Ashraf ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Missing Persons ◽  
Mine Collapse

Taking Stock

2020 ◽  
pp. 268-288
Author(s):  
Dawnie Steadman ◽  
Sarah Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Forensic Genetics ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis

This chapter explores the evolving role of forensic genetics in human rights investigations and as a technology of postmortem identification for missing persons in ongoing conflict and post-conflict societies. How has DNA’s increasingly privileged place as a line of evidence impacted the field in terms of both medico-legal standards and heightened expectations among surviving kin and their communities? Drawing on interviews with leading figures in the field of forensic science and human rights/transitional justice (e.g., the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, and the Colibrí Center for Human Rights), buttressed by ethnographic analysis of exhumation and identification efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Uganda, the chapter provides an overview and commentary about the technology’s complicated place in unearthing truths and effecting repair.

The Role of Temporal and Spatial Information Cues in Locating Missing Persons

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara N. Moore ◽  
James M. Lampinen ◽  
Andrew C. Provenzano
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Information Cues ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

scholarly journals Resolving the issue of missing persons with reference to the role of the international community

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Krstić ◽  
Marko Milović
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
International Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Role Of The State

The existence of the problem of missing persons is a necessary consequence of armed conflicts, even conflicts that arose on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. After twenty years or more, we still have a fairly large number of wanted persons who are listed as missing. The attempts of the international community to help solve these painful issues, which especially concern their families and which arose both during and after the armed conflict, especially in Croatia and on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, were pointed out. In this regard, a review was given of the Declaration on the Role of the State in Resolving the Issue of Missing Persons from 2014, which was signed by four countries in the region and which should be an incentive in resolving this issue.

Why victimology should focus on all victims, including all missing and disappeared persons

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Sarkin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The Real ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Organized Violence ◽  
The World

This article examines issues concerning the scope and role of victimology specifically as far as they relate to missing and disappeared persons. It argues that victimology ought to have a greater effect on the world by dealing with more victims, and that it should not be a solely academic discipline. It is contended that victimology should confront the real issues that arise for the victims after the crimes they suffer, and thus it needs to play a far more pragmatic, practical role. It is reasoned that broadening the study of who victims are, how they become victims and how their fate and suffering could have been avoided will also have a meaningful effect. This is also true regarding what can be done to reduce the numbers of (potential) victims. The article specifically calls on victimology to deal with victims who have gone missing. It argues that even amongst victimologists studying the widest variety of affected victims, there is almost no focus on the missing. The article goes into detail about who the missing are, and analyses the circumstances surrounding missing persons, whether as a result of war, human rights abuses such as enforced disappearances, or disasters, organized violence, migration and many more. The article also touches upon the processes of finding missing persons and considers their legal, technical and societal implications.

scholarly journals The importance and role of legal sciences in resolving the problems of missing persons in armed conflicts in the former SFRY and AP KiM

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-154
Author(s):  
Sofija Lolić ◽  
Julijana Račić
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
The Law

In this paper, the authors accentuate constitutional and legislation governing human rights through the issue of missing persons in armed conflicts in the period from 1992 to 2000. At the same time, it contains statistical data on the reported international Committee in so-called closed cases, open cases, cases closed since the beginning of 2020, the persons presumed to be dead but whose remains are assumed. They have not yet been found and returned to families, whose fate is still unknown, about the persons who are known to be alive, found by the persons identified and submitted to families, and finally cases that are closed for administrative reasons. The need to be adopted by the Law on Persons who have disappeared during the armed conflict. What was preceded by this work were two decades without an answer to the question of what happened to the missing persons on the territory of the SFRY, with special reference to KiM.

Implementing international law: An avenue for preventing disappearances, resolving cases of missing persons and addressing the needs of their families

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (905) ◽  
pp. 547-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ximena Londoño ◽  
Alexandra Ortiz Signoret
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
National Level ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
National Implementation ◽  
The Right To Know ◽  
The Right

AbstractInternational humanitarian law and international human rights law seek to prevent people from going missing, and to clarify the fate and whereabouts of those who do go missing while upholding the right to know of their relatives. When implementing international law at the domestic level, national authorities should plan carefully before engaging in any policy or legal reform that will address the issue of missing persons and the response to the needs of their families. This article seeks to present a general overview of the provisions of international law that are relevant to understanding the role of national implementation vis-à-vis the clarification of the fate and whereabouts of missing persons and the response to the needs of their relatives. It also presents the role that the ICRC has played in this regard and highlights three challenges that may arise at the national level when working on legal and policy reforms.

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