Iraqi Red Crescent Society

جمعية الهلال الأحمر العراقي

Restoring family links

The tracing dept. is an important one in the IRCS which its activities began long time ago, and there were old publications referred to exchanging messages processesinthe past century in addition to tracing and registration of affected families as a result of natural disasters thatIraq experienced.
When the Iraqi-Iranian war broke out in 1980 the tracingrole inthe IRCS excelled through tracingprocedures for the missing people, exchanging information between families and prisoners of war (PoWs)in cooperation with the Iraqi news agency, Permanent Committee for war victims and with the ICRC (which established its delegation in Iraq during that period of time).
When the war ended in 1988 the IRCS participated in the operations of exchanging the (PoWs) between Iraq and Iran.In 1999 a cooperation agreementwas signed between the IRCS and the ICRC in the scope of restoring family links, and accordingly, the tracing dept. was established.
The general objective: restoring family links and alleviating the suffering of vulnerable people affected by war, armed conflicts and natural disasters.

The target categories:

The tracing activities: