The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) cordially invites you to its 30th Anniversary Roundtable

From Grief to Global Impact: The Transformative Role of Women in Addressing the Global Challenge of Missing Persons

to be held on Thursday, 18 June 2026, starting at 14:00 hrs at the Sophiahof Museum The Hague, Sophialaan 10

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the International Commission on Missing Persons will convene civil society leaders, academics, prosecutors, judges, practitioners, and other experts to examine the transformative role that women have played in confronting the global challenge of missing persons — turning personal loss into demands for justice and accountability.

The Roundtable will feature two Panels. Panel I From Grief to Justice and Global Impact will explore how women have driven accountability efforts at the highest levels. Panel II The Gender of Absence will focus on ICMP’s forthcoming book, to be published by the University of California Press, which examines the disproportionate impact of disappearances on women and their communities.

Opening Remarks will be delivered by Her Majesty Queen Noor (ICMP Commissioner), H.E. Ambassador Sahar Ghanem of Yemen, Ms. Munira Subašić (Movement of Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves), and other distinguished guests.

Panel I speakers include Ms. Yasmeen Al Mashan (Director of the Reparations Department, Syrian National Commission for Transitional Justice), Mr. Alan Tieger (Senior Prosecutor, Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office), and H.E. Ms. Fatou Bensouda (Gambian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom). The panel will be moderated by Ms. Kimberly West (Specialist Prosecutor, Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office).

Panel II speakers include Dr. Tâm T.T. Ngô (Senior Researcher and Associate Professor, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies), Dr. Melanie Klinkner (Professor of International Law, Bournemouth University), and Dr. Sarah Huston, MS (Assistant Professor at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago & the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University). The panel will be moderated by Ms. Sirpa Rautio (Director, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights).

RSVP by 10 June to dima.babilli@icmp.int