A/HRC/10/28 page 10 over 300 individuals had been reunited with their loved ones, in the Tbilisi, Gori and Tskhinvali areas. No progress was made during the period in solving the fate of 2,250 missing persons since the previous conflicts in Georgia (Abkhazia and South Ossetia). 30. On 9 December 2008, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ICRC and the Red Cross Society launched a campaign to speed up the identification of children separated from their parents and to facilitate family reunification. The head of the ICRC Central Tracing Agency for the Democratic Republic of the Congo reported that the initial results had been positive. The efforts were in response to concerns that, among the 250,000 persons displaced in North Kivu as a result of the fighting there since August 2008, many children could have been separated from their parents. ICRC reported that it had registered 134 children since the end of October 2008, but expressed concern that the actual number could be considerably higher. The vast Red Cross network is being used in the country both to register stranded children and to receive the tracing requests of families having lost contact with their children. The details are then broadcast throughout North Kivu on four local radio stations, three times a day. Explanatory posters are displayed in Red Cross offices in the field and in various public places to inform families about the service. In addition, ICRC displays photographs of lost children in areas with a high concentration of displaced people, such as schools, churches and childcare centres, as well as camps for the displaced. 31. ICRC also reported that the International Tracing Service, which opened its archives of 50 million documents on Nazi persecution to the public in November 2007, had, as at November 2008, received 1,300 visitors from 24 countries, including 330 researchers, 100 journalists and 290 victims of Nazi persecution and members of their families. It was also reported that the Service, located in Bad Arolsen in Germany, had in the same period received a total of 11,300 enquiries from 77 countries, of which 2,920 from scholars and journalists. The Service is governed by the 11-nation International Commission for the International Tracing Service under the 1955 Bonn Agreements and the amendments thereto of 2006. ICRC manages the Service on behalf of the International Commission, serving victims and families. 32. ICRC is also working jointly with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on a manual designed for parliamentarians for the implementation of the resolution adopted by IPU at its 115th Assembly on Missing Persons. 33. ICRC also organized the first and second meetings of medico-legal institutes from the Iberoamerican and the Asia-Pacific regions respectively, to promote communication, coordination and cooperation between those institutions for improved management and identification of human remains, including for disaster response. The meetings were organized jointly with medico-legal institutes of Peru and of Melbourne, Australia, respectively. 34. The International Commission on Missing Persons hosted a conference in Belgrade from 28 to 30 November 2008, where more than 100 representatives of associations of families of missing persons, Government institutions from the region, and parliamentarians and human rights organizations met to discuss issues pertinent to determining the fate of missing persons from the armed conflicts of the 1990s in South-East Europe. It was estimated that over 17,000 persons are still missing from these armed conflicts. Key conclusions from the conference included a call for Governments in the region to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and to sign agreements on the