International Commission for Missing Persons
The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) is an organization that investigates the fate of missing people after natural disasters, wars and civil wars. The organization based in The Hague is financed by grants, donations and contributions from the United States , the EU , the Holy See , Canada , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Sweden , Switzerland and Great Britain . The current chairman is former Ambassador Thomas Miller
founding
The ICMP was founded in 1996 on the initiative of then US President Bill Clinton in Sarajevo because of the Bosnian War .
Locations
In addition to Bosnia, she is also active in Iraq , Chile , Colombia and the Philippines . The organization continued to help identify victims after the 2001 World Trade Center attack and the 2004 tsunami . Archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists from other forensic disciplines track down the remains of the dead, recover them and give them back their identity through DNA comparisons. ICMP has a DNA database with 88,610 relatives and 29,073 victims.
management
In 2006, US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was the chairman. In 2009 it is James Kimsey , President of the Kimsey Foundation . Commissioners organize the work.
Web links
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- ICMP website (PDF; 166 kB)