The Central Tracing Agency (CTA) Bureau for the international armed conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine aims at preventing disappearances and alleviating the suffering of families who remain without news of their loved ones, either because they have been captured or arrested, they have gone missing or because they fled their ...

Mar 14, 2022 · For the past 150 years, the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency has been helping people separated from their loved ones. We are entrusted by the Geneva Conventions as a neutral intermediary to assist parties and remedy family …

When visiting detainees, the ICRC ensures that their families are informed and keeps track of their fate and whereabouts. The CTA also draws up and keeps registers of particularly vulnerable categories of people, such as unaccompanied minors.

The CTA, which marked its 150th anniversary in 2021, continues to explore and implement innovative ways to transform the global effort to prevent people from going missing and to respond to the needs of both missing persons and their families.

Nov 28, 2023 · The Central Tracing Agency Bureau for the International Armed Conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine is the first dedicated team of this kind to have been set up by the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency since the 2003 Gulf War, and the largest such team since the Second World War.

Coordinated by the Central Tracing Agency, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement’s worldwide Family Links Network comprises the CTA, the tracing units in ICRC delegations around the world, and the tracing services of …

Feb 29, 2024 · They also provide, to some extent, the basis on which humanitarian actors can and must operate: this is the case for the ICRC Central Tracing Agency (CTA). The CTA offers an essential means to reconnect people in enemy hands to the Power they depend on, the country of their nationality or last residence [2] , and ultimately to their families.

Aug 27, 2021 · Seizing new opportunities to improve through digitalization, the ICRC’s Central Tracing Agency (CTA) and the global Family Links Network continue to help families around the world.

Dec 22, 2022 · Loved ones seeking information on prisoners of war or other missing in war in Ukraine now have an expanded outlet of the ICRC's Central Tracing Agency that operates from its headquarters in Geneva, as well as closer to the frontlines.

May 11, 2021 · For the 150th anniversary of the Central Tracing Agency (CTA), one of the oldest institutions whose existence is enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC is co-organising with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, an online high-level event.