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Victims of migrant drownings do not get the same treatment as air-crash victims (Photo: Flickr)

Time to end double standards on missing persons

For many families around the world, Sunday (30 August), the International Day of the Disappeared, will be a day of anger and sorrow.

Families of the missing will receive messages of support and solidarity, but such messages can only have meaning if they are accompanied by concrete and effective action.\n \nGovernments have mandatory obligations under international and domestic law to do everything in their power to account for missing persons.

When families of the missing seek t...

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Kathryne Bomberger is director-general of the International Commission on Missing Persons, an international organisation in The Hague.

Victims of migrant drownings do not get the same treatment as air-crash victims (Photo: Flickr)

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Kathryne Bomberger is director-general of the International Commission on Missing Persons, an international organisation in The Hague.

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