The protection of the missing and the dead under international law.

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Romanowsky, X. L., & Chau, M. S. (2020). 

The missing and the dead are protected under international law. In particular, in situations of international and non‐international armed conflicts, the missing and the dead are protected under international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL).

An abstract is available to view online with restricted access to the full document. Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living, 25-35. 

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