A major Newsweek article on the emerging global challenge of missing persons cites ICMP as the acknowledged world leader in helping governments deal with the issue. The Newsweek report covers, among other things, the “worldwide first” this summer when leaders of Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, signed the ICMP Declaration on the role of states in addressing missing persons cases. By signing the Declaration, ICMP Director-General Kathryne Bomberger, notes, “the heads of state of countries that were the epicenter of a conflict, in which as many as 40,000 people went missing, formally recognized the legal, political, social and practical steps that states must take in order to help families of the missing locate and identify the remains of their loved ones”. The full Newsweek article can be accessed at http://www.newsweek.com/global-conflicts-create-record-numbers-missing-285274