A preventable tragedy | Restoring Family Links | ICRC
Channel: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Date: 2021-08-26

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are missing or separated from their families due to armed conflict, violence, migration, environmental disasters, and other humanitarian emergencies. Many never return or are heard from again. 

The tragedy of their story affects countless people around them–emotionally, physically, legally, financially, and socially. Families of the missing are in constant motion — searching, looking, wondering, remembering, and missing their loved ones. Their search can continue for decades.  

The COVID-19 pandemic has prolonged this agony, as families face restrictions in movement that delay search and identification processes.

The Red Cross and Red Crescent family links network does everything possible to help them. 

This tragedy is preventable. Every effort should be made to prevent even one person from going missing.