Thousands of victims’ families, human rights defenders, journalists, prosecutors, judges, police, and forensic professionals to build local capacity and help develop sustainable forensic systems for lasting change.

To domestic and international tribunals that convicted or imprisoned authoritarian leaders or high-profile perpetrators of Argentina, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Perú and Serbia.

To the clandestine methodologies of state and criminal enterprises such as Argentina’s death flights that strategically dropped victims from planes into the ocean to impede recovery; the Srebrenica Massacre, where EAAF evidence led to the conclusion of deliberate genocide in Bosnia; the massacre at El Mozote in El Salvador, where far more children were executed than ever imagined; and in Iraq, where EAAF’s work helped uncover the systemic killings of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s.

By creating a transnational forensic mechanism called the Border Project that has identified hundreds of bodies along the Central America-Mexico-US corridor, repatriated them to their families, and amassed the largest resource of forensic and genetic material on missing migrants that could identify thousands more. By involving victims’ families, legal representatives, local prosecutors, and foreign affairs ministries the Border project has been named by the IOM, OAS, and ICRC as the “preferred model” for addressing such crises of migrant disappearances worldwide.

The forensics field by expanding the use of advanced forensic technologies through high-profile applications, multi-disciplinary conferences, and contributions to global policy.

Processes in which forensic sciences have been a part of the the aftermath of a conflict or of gross human right abuses have proven to be more solid and long-lasting than others. 

• Argentina: Uncovered the truth, identified victims, and supported legal proceedings, significantly contributing to the pursuit of justice, reconciliation, and the prevention of future human rights violations.  
• Central African Republic, conducted the most complex forensic investigation in the International Criminal Court’s 20-year history;  
• Cyprus: coordinated and trained the Bicommunal Forensic Team created at the request of the Commission of Missing Persons. 
• Ethiopia: assisted in the establishment of forensic anthropology and identification programs in Ethiopia, particularly related to mass graves and human rights abuses. 
• Guatemala: Provided early training for burgeoning experts of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, together with other experts from the American Association from the Advancement of Sciences. 
• Mexico: Advocated, together with other forensic experts and victims’ families from the National Movement for our Disappeared, for the creation of federal mechanisms designed to address the crisis of more than 100,000 disappearances.  
• South Africa: Trained and developed the South Africa’s Missing Persons Task Team, a government forensic team that arose from civilian demand from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to pursue the identification of victims of anti-Apartheid struggle. 
• The Balkans: provided answers to families who have long sought information about their missing loved ones and helped establish a factual record of the human rights abuses committed during the conflicts.  
• Ukraine: supported the ICRC project in Ukraine to establish the country’s first national forensic mechanism for the identication  the disappeared, which was dedicated to the victims of the 2014 conflict in the Crimea and Donbas regions, and is now being applied to the current conflict.