With over 100,000 Syrians still missing, families are awaiting a vote on a new UN body that will seek to trace those who were forcibly disappeared during Syria's civil war.
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Three Syrians whose family members were forcibly disappeared during the civil war were at the United Nations this week to lobby for the creation of an Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic. The UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution calling for the creation of the institution later this month. More than 100,000 Syrians are estimated to have gone missing during the war, which is now in its 13th.
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