Every Missing Person Has a Name

The exhibition gives visitors insight into ICMP’s work over three decades: how it helps governments and families locate, identify and account for people who have gone missing as a result of armed conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, migration and organized crime.

Behind every missing person is a family whose life is forever changed, and a community left searching for answers. Investigating disappearances is about more than locating and identifying people, it is about protecting human dignity, upholding the rule of law, and helping societies recover from crisis. Women are often left to search for missing family members, while also being disproportionately affected by trafficking, femicide and gender-based violence themselves.

As the international city of peace and justice, The Hague is home to the institutions that uphold international law and accountability. ICMP contributes to this mission by helping governments fulfil their responsibility to account for missing persons, and by supporting courts and prosecutors with scientific evidence, using world-leading DNA identification and forensic expertise.

This exhibition is produced by the International Commission on Missing Persons, in collaboration with the Municipality of The Hague.