The independent institution for the missing people in Syria

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“For more than a decade, families of the missing and forcibly disappeared have faced immense challenges in obtaining any information about the fate of their loved ones. All parties to the conflict have been unwilling to address the issue, leaving relatives in a state of perpetual agony and uncertainty. By establishing an institution focused on this very issue, the UN can help them find some of the answers they deserve.”

Said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary-General, ahead of a vote in the UN general assembly on the establishment of an independent and international institution to clarify the fate and whereabouts of tens of thousands of missing and forcibly disappeared in Syria since 2011.

After the vote, the UN issued its resolution to establish this institution after many demands from the families of the missing people in Syria, human rights defenders and the…