International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP)

ICMP was created at the 1996 G-7 Summit to address the issue of persons missing as a consequence of the conflicts in the Western Balkans. Starting in 2004, it began working globally. In 2014, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Sweden and Luxembourg signed an international agreement establishing ICMP as an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in The Hague to respond to the global challenge of missing persons. As part of its programs, ICMP’s specialized DNA laboratory provides a global resource for high-throughput standing capacity in DNA testing and family matching of missing persons from any context. ICMP’s programs are designed to meet the global challenge of missing persons in a dynamic, cost effective and innovative manner. They build upon ICMP’s successes over the last 20 years and carry forward the knowledge base of ICMP’s experience in working in over 40 countries on the broad range of circumstances in which persons go missing – from conflict to disasters to forced migration. ICMP also supports the development of legislative and administrative measures to address the issue of missing persons, works to secure the participation of civil society, and provides a range of technical and data systems solutions to address the problem of missing and disappeared persons, which has intensified in the course of the last two decades with climate change and environmental degradation leading to more and more frequent natural disaster, as well as mass migration, political instability and human rights abuses. *

	Start	1996-01-01 established
	Industry	services (excl. financial)

	City	n. a. Den Haag
		Address record changed: 2016-10-01

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		Record changed: 2024-02-12

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[1] Qiagen N.V.. (10/24/17). "Press Release: Qiagen and ICMP Launch Next-generation DNA Testing Solutions for Identifying Missing Persons". The Hague....

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