PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS in humanitarian search for missing persons in Sur de Bolivar

Published by Brent Patterson on July 10, 2024July 10, 2024

CREDHOS has posted:

“The humanitarian search has an intrinsic value: solidarity. Many people accompany and support the search, feeling empathy for people living with uncertainty about the whereabouts of their loved one.

From there is fundamental for the community, in which the different actors in the territory contribute to the search for people reported missing.

Searching for missing persons is fundamental for PEACE.”

CREDHOS tells us:

“The search for missing persons is a challenge that requires the collaboration of all humanity. The union of family members, organizations, communities, institutions and all people is fundamental to build the path towards their location.

People searching for their missing loved ones have the right to be accompanied in this search, and the missing deserve to be found and reunited with their families.

CREDHOS is committed to continue accompanying the families in the search for the disappeared, in favor of the life and dignity of the inhabitants of the Magdalena Medio Region. We believe that this work is a fundamental principle for Peace and for this reason we will continue to cross rivers, swamps, mountains and rocky roads, searching, following the tracks, until we find them.”

The ICMP has highlighted: “According to the Search Unit for Missing Persons (UBPD), the agency established under the Havana Peace Accords to account for those who went missing between 1948 and 2016, 104,602 people had been reported missing and 89,702 were still missing as of March 2023.”

In its Final Report, published in June 2022, the Commission for Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Recurrence found that 121,768 people were victims of forced disappearances in the context of the armed conflict.

Statista has noted that 6,514 people were reported missing in 2021, up from 4,491 in 2020.

The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has accompanied the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) since 1994.