Behind every forensic technique lies a deeper truth: someone is missing, and someone else is waiting. From Australia’s National Missing Persons Week to the UN’s International Day of the Disappeared, the world remembers those taken by disaster, violence, or dictatorship.

In this episode of The Forensic Lens Podcast, I reflect on the global struggle to recover the missing — from Latin America to the Middle East, and here in the Philippines. Forensic anthropology is not just a technical science. It is an act of love: restoring names, dignity, and memory where silence once prevailed.

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