International Committee of the Red Cross: Co-operation between the Central Tracing Agency of the International Committee of the Red Cross and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Society Tracing Services

Abstract

The Central Tracing Agency (CTA) exists to clear away such doubt, and to do so it has fixed as its four main tasks:1. to obtain, register, process and pass on all information that can identify persons whose case has been taken up by the ICRC;2. to ensure exchanges of family correspondence where normal communications are interrupted;3. to trace persons whose relatives have no news of them or who have been reported missing;4. to organize the reuniting of families, transfers of persons and repatriations.