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pearances, clarify the fate of missing
persons and assist their families.
• In Chile and Uruguay, the National
Committees for the implementation
of international humanitarian
law have started to prepare measures
to prevent disappearances,
clarify the fate of missing persons
and assist their families.
• In Peru, Supreme Order No. 015-
200 -JUS, published on July th,
200 , in the Official Gazette “El Peruano”,
approved the Regulations of
Act No. 2 592, creating the Integral
Redress Plan (PIR). On one hand,
the Regulations establish mechanisms,
modalities and procedures
allowing the victims of the violence
that occurred in the period May
19 0 to November 2000 to access
the redress programs established
by Act No. 2 592, according to the
conclusions and recommendations
of the Final Report of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission. On the
other hand, the Regulations stipulate
that a Redress Board will be
the agency in charge of examining
and resolving the claims regarding
the application of a Single Victims
Register. Ministerial Resolution No.
3 3-200 -PCM, published on October
20th, 200 in the Official Gazette
“El Peruano”, designated the
members of the Redress Board.
In addition, as at December 200 ,
the Ombudsman’s Office in Peru
has issued to relatives of missing
persons some 250 certificates
of absence due to disappearance.
However, the process involving the
exhumation, identification and return
of more than 13,000 missing
persons is still pending in Peru.
International Fact-Finding
Commission
Article 90 of Additional Protocol
I provides for the establishment
of the International Fact-Finding
Commission. This Commission
was officially constituted in 1991,
after twenty States accepted its jurisdiction.
It is a permanent body
whose primary purpose is to investigate
allegations of grave breaches
of international humanitarian law,
and to facilitate, through its good
offices, the restoration of an attitude
of respect for international humanitarian
law. Nowadays States, 11
of which are from the Americas,
have accepted the competence of
the Commission.
… estar motivadas ante todo por el
derecho que asiste a las familias de
conocer la suerte de sus miembros.
Protocolo adicional I, 1977
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Report on the Participation of the States in the Relevant Treaties Concerning
International Humanitarian Law and its National Implementation