Editing Forensic science (section)

== Forensic science and humanitarian work ==
The [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] (ICRC) uses forensic science for humanitarian purposes to clarify the fate of missing persons after armed conflict, disasters or migration,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icrc.org/eng/what-we-do/forensic/index.jsp |title=Forensic science and humanitarian action |publisher=ICRC |date= 28 July 2014|access-date=2014-08-03 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707145212/http://www.icrc.org/eng/what-we-do/forensic/index.jsp |archive-date=7 July 2014 }}</ref> and is one of the services related to [[Restoring Family Links]] and Missing Persons. Knowing what has happened to a missing relative can often make it easier to proceed with the grieving process and move on with life for families of missing persons.

Forensic science is used by various other organizations to clarify the fate and whereabouts of persons who have gone missing. Examples include the NGO [[Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team]], working to clarify the fate of people who disappeared during the period of the 1976–1983 military dictatorship. The [[International Commission on Missing Persons]] (ICMP) used forensic science to find missing persons,<ref>{{cite web |author=Forensic archeology and anthropology |url=http://www.ic-mp.org/activities/technical-assistance/?page_id=539 |title=Forensic archeology and anthropology |publisher=Ic-mp.org |date=28 February 2012 |access-date=2014-08-03 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624073824/http://www.ic-mp.org/activities/technical-assistance/?page_id=539 |archive-date=24 June 2014 }}</ref> for example after the conflicts in the Balkans.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ic-mp.org/icmp-worldwide/southeast-europe/ |title=Southeast Europe |publisher=Ic-mp.org |date=28 February 2012 |access-date=2014-08-03 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813081559/http://www.ic-mp.org/icmp-worldwide/southeast-europe/ |archive-date=13 August 2014 }}</ref>

Recognising the role of forensic science for humanitarian purposes, as well as the importance of forensic investigations in fulfilling the state's responsibilities to investigate human rights violations, a group of experts in the late-1980s devised a UN Manual on the Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions, which became known as the [[Minnesota Protocol]]. This document was revised and re-published by the [[Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016): The Revised United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (2016) |url=https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Publications/MinnesotaProtocol.pdf |website=UN Human Rights |publisher=UN Human Rights Office of the Commissioner |access-date=23 December 2023 |location=New York, Geneva |date=Jan 1, 2016 }}</ref>