International Commission on Missing Persons
ICMP headquarters in The Hague
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| Formation | 1996 |
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| Type | IGO |
| Purpose | Human Rights, Forensic Sciences, Government Relations, Relief Efforts |
| Headquarters | The Hague |
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Chair
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Thomas Miller |
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Director-General
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Kathryne Bomberger |
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Staff
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170 (January 2007) |
| Website | www.icmp.int |
| Signed | 15 December 2014 |
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| Location | Brussels |
| Effective | 14 May 2015 |
| Condition | 2 ratifications |
| Signatories | 5 (Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, El Salvador, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Serbia, Sweden, United Kingdom) |
| Parties | Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom |
| Depositary | Government of the Netherlands |
| Language | English |
The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) is an intergovernmental organization that addresses the issue of persons missing as a result of armed conflicts, violations of human rights, and natural disasters. It is headquartered in The Hague, The Netherlands. It assists governments in the exhumation of mass graves and DNA identification of missing persons, provides support to family associations of missing persons, and assists in creating strategies and institutions to search for missing persons. In December 2014, a treaty was signed which established the commission as an "International Organisation in its own right", which has 5 signatories, but has not entered into force. The treaty designates The Hague (Netherlands) as the seat of the organization.
ICMP was established at the behest of United States President Bill Clinton in 1996 at the G7 summit in Lyon, France, to confront the issue of persons missing as a result of the different conflicts relevant to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, and the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995. ICMP was first chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who was succeeded as Chairman by U.S. Senator Bob Dole. ICMP’s current Chairman is Thomas Miller. Although based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), ICMP is currently engaged in a wide-ranging area of operations that include the former conflict zones in the Western Balkans and the Middle East, as well as areas affected by natural disasters, such as tsunami affected regions of South Asia and the U.S. state of Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina. In 2001, at the request of New York City authorities, ICMP also sent two of its leading forensic scientists to the U.S. following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
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