Missing People, DNA and ID, ICRC 2009

A guide to best practice in armed confl icts and other situations of armed violence. International Committee of the Red Cross

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The Missing and Their Families

The Missing:Action to resolve the problem of people unaccounted for as a result of armed conflict or internal violence and to assist their families ICRC REPORT: THE MISSING AND THEIR FAMILIES Summary of the Conclusions arising from Events held prior to the International Conference of Governmental and Non-Governmental Experts (19-21 February 2003)

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Istanbul Protocol

The Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, commonly known as the Istanbul Protocol, is the first set of international guidelines for documentation of torture and its consequences. It became an official United Nations document in 1999. The Istanbul Protocol is intended to serve as a set of international guidelines for the assessment of persons who allege torture and ill treatment, for investigating cases of alleged torture, and for reporting such findings to the judiciary and any other investigative body.

Link: Istanbul Protocol

Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (Spanish)

Drafted in consultation with lawyers from The Advocates for Human Rights (formerly the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee), this manual, which supplements the Principles on the effective prevention and investigation of extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions (adopted by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1989/65 of 24 May 1989), contains international human rights standards, a model protocol for investigating extra-legal, arbitrary, and summary executions, a model autopsy protocol, and a model protocol for disinterment and analysis of skeletal remains.

Link: Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (Spanish)

Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (English)

Drafted in consultation with lawyers from The Advocates for Human Rights (formerly the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee), this manual, which supplements the Principles on the effective prevention and investigation of extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions (adopted by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1989/65 of 24 May 1989), contains international human rights standards, a model protocol for investigating extra-legal, arbitrary, and summary executions, a model autopsy protocol, and a model protocol for disinterment and analysis of skeletal remains.

Link: Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (English)