"For a decade, the nonprofit Colibrí Center for Human Rights worked with state agencies and humanitarian organizations to identify migrants whose remains were found in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. As part of this work, the organization managed a database of DNA samples from families across the U.S. and Latin America...But now, Colibrí’s missing- persons database has itself gone missing."

https://undark.org/2026/04/07/missing-migrants-dna-database/

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A DNA Archive Built to Identify Missing Migrants Has Vanished

The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. Now it's gone dark.

Undark Magazine