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The Office on Missing Persons in Sri Lanka: Why Truth Is a Radical Proposition
International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2023 In 2016, the Sri Lanka Parliament passed the Office on Missing Persons Act (OMP) ‘to search for and trace missing persons.’ At the time, Sinhala Buddhist nationalist leaders strongly objected to it.
Chulani Kodikara
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, 1988 Each year, thousands of Australians are reported missing to police. Most return home, unharmed, after a short period; but not all found nor are all those who are located unharmed.
Wilson, Paul +4 more
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An initial overview of the National Policy on the Search for Missing Persons in Brazil
Forensic Science International: Reports, 2022 The missing and unidentified persons problem affects every country in the world differently. In Brazil, aspects of the investigation and identification of persons are deficient and, among other things, need better policies and integrated procedures. This
Melina Calmon Silva +8 more
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Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021 The aim of this article is to investigate the nature of information sharing in social media about missing persons by using social media data (mostly Twitter) and conventional media coverage (media archives), adopting a platial perspective to this ...
V. Ceccato, R. Petersson
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BMC Psychology, 2021 The psychological and social issues experienced by family members of missing persons are different from normal grief following the death of a loved one. The term “Ambiguous loss” describes this psychological phenomenon.
A. Isuru +2 more
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Constructing time in uncertainty: Temporal regimes among missing persons’ families
Current Sociology, 2021 This article examines how concepts of time undergo transformation in cases of extreme uncertainty by examining the experiences of missing persons’ families in Israel.
O. Katz, Karen Shalev Greene
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Materials for the study of the locus operandi in the search for missing persons in Italy
Forensic Sciences Research, 2021 Geographic profiling, or locus operandi, is a scientific approach that has been applied to forensic investigations for several years. However, it has never been applied to a phenomenon as complex as the search for missing persons.
P. Barone +2 more
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Resolving the issue of missing persons with reference to the role of the international community [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2021 The existence of the problem of missing persons is a necessary consequence of armed conflicts, even conflicts that arose on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
Krstić Ljiljana, Milović Marko M.
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The Rights of the Families of Missing Persons: Going Beyond International Humanitarian Law
Israel Law Review, 2021 The main aim of the article is to test how states implement international humanitarian law (IHL) with regard to the families of missing persons. The article shows relevant IHL shortcomings and compares them with rules applicable in cases of enforced ...
Grażyna Baranowska
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Annals of Human Biology, 2017 Background: Situated at the crossroads of Asia, Middle East and Europe, Turkey has an ethnically diverse population of over 78 milllion people. Aim: To investigate the population genetics and potential differences in the autosomal short tandem repeat ...
Kemal Murat Canturk +3 more
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