The head of the Independent Institution for Missing Persons in Syria (IIMP), Karla Quintana, expressed during a press conference on Wednesday that finding the thousands of Syrians who disappeared during the Assad regime requires a collective effort.

Quintana warned that time is running out, and locating the missing people requires the support of the international community. At the UN’s New York headquarters, she warned that the “crisis of the missing in Syria affects not only hundreds of thousands of families, but entire communities on the whole Syrian society.” She urged that “comparative experience” and the mobilization of “every available skill, resource, and capacity” are necessary to achieve the IIMP’s mission.

A major challenge to the IIMP’s efforts, according to Quintana, is the

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