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About 23,000 people are still missing as a result of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has been going on for almost two years. Source: press service of the International Committee of the Red Cross Quote: "The International Committee of the Red Cross is working to find out the fate of 23,000 people whose families have no news of them - either because they have been captured or killed, or because contact has been lost after they left their homes.

Protesters have been marching across the country against alleged enforced disappearances in Balochistan.

Allison Morrisette and Mary Beth Holzwarth were hired a year ago to help coordinate responses to the MMIP crisis and human trafficking in South Dakota.

New Mexico is creating a new advisory council that will be charged with implementing a state plan for responding to cases of missing or slain Native Americans, with top state officials vowing Tuesday that the work will lead to more people being found and families gaining closure. Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s announcement follows criticism from advocates who feared the state was losing momentum after the governor dissolved the task force that came up with the plan more than a ye...

Families search for missing relatives as shops and bars gradually reopen -- two weeks after a devastating hurricane, Mexico's beachside city of Acapulco is struggling to regain a semblance of normality.In Acapulco Bay, navy divers search for missing people among destroyed or submerged yachts.

Karen Phillips had hoped she wouldn’t have to attend another news conference for her daughter’s birthday. Phillips’ daughter, Kierra Coles, has been missing for five years. On Sunday, her daughter’s 31st birthday, Phillips, 52, gathered with family and others whose loved ones have disappeared to ask again for the public’s support as well as that of police and law enforcement in finding her ...

In Libya's flood-hit city of Derna, the Mediterranean Sea breeze mixes with the nauseating stench of human remains buried under the mud-caked rubble.Thirty-two of his relatives are missing after their building was reduced to rubble that remains inaccessible.

Mothers of some of 111,000 people who have disappeared in Mexico over decades of violence on Wednesday marked the International Day of the Disappeared with protests and demands that the government do more to locate their loved ones. Edith Pérez Rodríguez, one of the marchers, wore a T-shirt with photos of her two sons, Alexis and José Arturo Domínguez Pérez. “If we don’t search for our children, nobody will do it,” said Pérez Rodríguez.

  Speaking in Mannar, Manuwal Udayachandra, president of the Association of Families Searching for Missing Relatives condemned Sri Lanka’s Office of Missing Persons (OMP). “We initially said that we do not need the Office of Missing Persons (OMP)” Udayachandra stated.

The UN General Assembly on Thursday created an independent body to "clarify" the fate of thousands of people who remain missing in Syria since war broke out in 2011, overriding objections from Damascus.The Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic will "clarify the fate and whereabouts of all missing persons" in the country and "provide adequate support to victims, survivors and the families of those missing."