IASC Weekly Meeting: ICRC Presentation on Restoring Family Links
Geneva
Meeting Documents
I. Presentation by the ICRC on 'Restoring Family Links'
Mr. Olivier Dubois, Deputy Head of the Central Tracing Agency and Protection Division, ICRC, will brief on the Restoring Family Links (RFL) activities of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (RC/RC Movement) and the coordination of its worldwide Family Links Network. Special focus will be given on RFL in disasters and the RC/RC Movement's response to the needs after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010.
Background
‘Restoring Family Links’ refers to activities aimed at preventing separation, restoring and maintaining contact between family members and clarifying the fate of persons reported missing. Those activities include organizing the exchange of family news, tracing individuals, registering and following up vulnerable individuals to prevent their disappearance and enabling families to be informed about their whereabouts, reuniting and repatriating families, collecting, managing and forwarding information on the dead, forwarding official documents and issuing travel documents.
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