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Guiding Principles on Interaction with Families of Missing Migrants

Knowledge Platform

Guiding Principles on Interaction with Families of Missing Migrants

This document presents a set of principles to guide interaction between families and a broad range of stakeholders, including states and their various organs, international and non-governmental organizations, and civil society actors, such as associations of families of the missing. They assume that families ought to be central actors in efforts to address their needs. While the primary responsibility for responding to those needs lies with states, others can support their efforts. This includes all elements of how stakeholders engage with families and how families can most effectively participate in the process of gathering, analysing and sharing information to determine the fate and whereabouts of missing migrants, and in addressing their other needs. At the core of the principles is the understanding that families have a need to know the fate and whereabouts of the missing and have relevant rights under applicable branches of international law.

Date of Publication
Target Audience
Academia
Civil Society
General Public
Government
Intergovernmental Organization
Journalist
Migrant Association
Private Sector
Author
Missing Persons Project
Source / Publisher
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Language
Arabic
English
Spanish
Other
Other Language
Portuguese
Geographic Scope
Global
Workstream Output
No
Regional Review Process
No
GCM Objectives
8
Cross Cutting Theme
Human rights
Gender-responsive
Child-sensitive
SDGs
SDG.10 - Reduced Inequalities
Keywords
Forced migration or displacement
Gender
Human rights
Migrant deaths and disappearances
Migrant rights
Tags
Missing Migrants
families
Status
Published

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