ABSTRACT
Restoring Family Links is a core activity for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It involves exchanging the data of families separated by armed conflict, disaster, migration, and other situations requiring a humanitarian response to find missing loved ones and reunite families. To manage a global data flow within a context of emergent data protection legislation and a changing digital landscape, the Restoring Family Links Code of Conduct on Data Protection was created in 2015, setting out minimum standards on data protection for Restoring Family Links units worldwide. A decade on, this chapter provides an assessment of the challenges and benefits of operationalising a global set of common standards.
