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29-04-2008  Photo Collection  
From the tragedy of separation to the joy of being reunited
The suffering of families without news of what has happened to a relative is one of the cruellest consequences of war and disaster. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's global network seeks to restore and maintain links between separated family members and to establish the fate of missing persons.

©ICRC/B. Heger/lr-e-00175h
Liberia, Lofa county, Poluwo. A father is reunited with his daughter thanks to the Family Links Network.


©ICRC/B. Heger/pe-e-00273
Peru, Ayacucho. A woman provides information on a missing family member.


©ICRC/V. Louis/ru-e-00502
Chechnya, Grozny. A woman holds up photographs of her missing son.


©ICRC/B. Heger/ec-e-00051
Ecuador, Quito. Ecuadorean Red Cross office. A Colombian refugee writes a Red Cross message to his family living in an isolated region in Colombia.


©ICRC/P. Wiggers/ng-e-00193
Nigeria, Ogun State, Oru refugee camp. Red Cross messages enable the camp’s residents, who are mainly from Liberia, to restore or maintain contact with their loved ones.


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ye-e-00086
Yemen, Sanaa. A Somali woman who has been a refugee for the last five years in Yemen receives her first Red Cross message from a sister living in Kenya.


©ICRC/H. Hassan/iq-e-00662
Iraq, Basra, Bucca camp. Family visiting time. The ICRC contributes to the travelling expenses of families whose relatives are held here and at the Basra airport detention centre.


Kenya, Nakuru Stadium. A mother and son, split up by the violence that followed the January 2008 elections, are reunited as volunteers from the Kenya Red Cross look on.


©ICRC/W. Lembryk/cd-e-00610
Congo-Kinshasa, North Kivu province, Butembo. A family split up by the civil war is reunited.


©ICRC/B. Heger/lr-e-00115
Liberia, Lofa county. Raising awareness of the Movement's work to restore family links.


©ICRC/A. Mucheke/ke-e-00165
Kenya. Offices at the Eldoret showground, where thousands of people sought refuge at the start of 2008. Photographs of missing children and information on the activities of the Kenya Red Cross are posted here.


©ICRC/V. Louis/af-e-00386
Afghanistan, near Kunduz. A Red Cross message is delivered to the family of a Guantanamo detainee.


©ICRC/P. Yazdi/so-e-00228
Somalia, Hargeysa. A volunteer from the Somali Red Crescent distributes messages.


©ICRC/D. Sansoni/lk-e-00290
Sri Lanka, Batticaloa., Kiran camp for displaced people. Reading a Red Cross message.


©ICRC/F. Clarke/pk-e-00241
Pakistan. In the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake, a villager uses a satellite telephone to call his family.


©ICRC/R. Keusen/af-e-01229
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  • See also the news release and the feature on video-teleconference with detainees in Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan, Kabul. Two call centres have been set up, one on the premises of the ICRC delegation and the other at Bagram prison. Thanks to this video-teleconferencing system, detainees and their families are able to see and speak to one another.


    ©ICRC/A. Gutman/cd-e-00664
    Congo-Kinshasa, South Kivu province, Shabunda. Seven demobilized child solders are reunited with their families.


    ©ICRC/T. Gassmann/td-e-00247
    Chad, Gaga refugee camp. Volunteers are trained to collect and distribute Red Cross messages for camp residents.


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