Lebanon
As many as 17,400 people are estimated to have gone missing during the civil conflict in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990.
Civil society has been persistent in keeping the missing persons issue in public view. NGOs have called on the authorities to launch a sustained and comprehensive process of accounting for the missing. Lebanon signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICCPED) in 2007 but has not yet ratified the Convention. In 2018, Law 105 was enacted, recognizing the right to know and providing for the establishment of an Independent National Commission to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing persons.
