Family Communication 

International Disaster Welfare Inquiries are health and welfare inquiries sent to alleviate distress when normal direct communication between family members is disrupted and attempts to reestablish contact between a person in the United States and a close relative who is a citizen of another country have failed.

International Humanitarian Law is the body of laws and principles that seeks to save lives and alleviate suffering of combatants and noncombatants during armed conflicts. Its principal legal documents are the Geneva Conventions of 1949, four treaties signed by almost all states (nations) around the world. The Geneva Conventions specifically protect members of the armed forces who are wounded, sick or shipwrecked, prisoners of war, and civilians. (Also sometimes referred to as "the law of armed conflict" or the "law of war."