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• International Day of the Disappeared: Indifference to a humanitarian tragedy

  The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, has called on governments to urgently address the humanitarian issue of missing people: those who disappeared during armed conflict or other situations of violence, natural disasters or migration.

  8/29/2016 | ARTICLE

• A BBC program is reuniting Somali families torn apart by conflict

  It’s 2 p.m. on a boring weekday afternoon and you need distraction. You turn on the radio, and what do you get? In the US, you might get music or local news (or, if you're really lucky, something from PRI). But in Somalia, if you tune into the BBC’s Somali radio service, you'll get something very different: An announcer slowly reading a list of names, ages and places.

  7/22/2014 | VIDEO

• Families of missing people need better support

  Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling for a better and broader response to the needs of the families of persons missing as the result of armed conflict or natural disaster.

  8/30/2013 | ARTICLE

• Somalia: Restoring contact between families separated by conflict

  After two decades of conflict, tens of thousands of Somalis have been separated from their families. The ICRC in Somalia helps reunite these families in partnership with the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS), and other Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world.

  4/5/2013 | ARTICLE

• Somalia: a reason to smile – a mother and daughter reunited [video]

  When Isha Munya fled war-torn Somalia more than two decades ago, she was faced with the heartbreaking notion of never seeing her loved ones again. The brutal inter-tribal violence that had broken out across the country scattered her large and close-knit family, forcing Isha to leave her mother Akrabo and one of her daughters, Faduma, then 8, behind.

  4/5/2013 | VIDEO