The Search for Argentina's Disappeared
By Lisa Butler, Reuben Granich, and Kate Barrett

In Argentina during the mid-seventies and early-eighties, military operatives abducted over 350 children, many of whom were infants. Some were sold on the black market while others were placed in childless military households. Years later, Argentinian and American human rights advocates sought the assistance of geneticists to employ DNA testing to identify disappeared children and reunite families.

All That Remains : Identifying the Victims of the Srebrenica Massacre
Text By Laurie Vollen and photographs By Gilles Peress

Vollen's article and Peress' photographs reveal the horrors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre where thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed by the Bosnian Serb army. In 1997, Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) began the Srebrenica Identification Project. The PHR staff followed up on leads, worked closely with families of the missing, and established an antemortem database that would later assist scientists in the application of mitochondrial DNA analysis to positively identify the missing.

The Face of Innocence
By Dona McAdams

Photographer Dona McAdams tells the stories of several men who were imprisoned for crimes that they did not commit. DNA technology played a pivotal role in proving their innocence and in securing their freedom.

DNA and the Death Penalty
By Victor Peskin

DNA technology has developed an important yet sometimes uneasy partnership with the criminal justice system. It has been an instrumental tool in exonerating those unjustly convicted and in identifying suspects implicated in the most heinous crimes. It also has exposed some of the most glaring deficiencies and failures of the American criminal justice system. What does the rapid advancement of DNA technology mean for the death penalty and for those opposed to the death penalty?