Missing Children around the World
 
Child Abduction is a global problem. Centro de Informacion sobre Ninos Secuestrados. Sitio dedicado a ayudar a los padres de ninos secuestrados o desaparecidos. Esta pagina contiene informacion sobre ninos de Argentina, Brazil, mexico y muchos otros paises alrededor del mundo.

Beim Child Abduction Resource Center finden Sie Informationen über vermisste und missbrauchte Kinder.

Child Abduction Resource Center:
ワールドワイドに展開しており、リンクも多い。


Vermisste Kinder.....Ninos Secuestrados.....Criancas Desaparecidas.....Bambini Rapiti.....Enlevement D'Enfants                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Features   Global Missing Children Resources
Multilingual child abduction resources for international visitors
United Kingdom TV Channel 4,  Parental Child Abduction
German Consulate: Abduction of Children Across Borders
Spiegel Online TV Special: Vermisste Kinder
The Times of India: Police Bust Child Abduction Racket
 Ricky Martin Foundation: advocates for children's rights and helps find missing Puerto Rican children.

Global Resources: Missing or Abducted  Children

     

   Africa..........

Human Rights Watch. Abduction of children in Africa. Briefing to the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights

 

Asia..........

Children's Rights Network of Japan.

良親は両親!

"Our Mission is to to disseminate information to help change attitudes and laws in Japan that will assure children of meaningful and continuing contact with both parents, regardless of citizenship or marital status.  We want to restore the rights of children in Japan subject to parental separation, such as divorce, international parental abduction to Japan, and parental kidnapping within Japan..."

 

Missing Child Korea

 

Australia..........

 

National Missing Persons Unit is funded by the Commonwealth Government. The NMPU's mission is to coordinate and promote a national integrated approach to reduce the incidence and impact of missing persons.

 

Europe..........

 

 

Parental Child Abduction Laws in the United Kingdom 

 

European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children

 

 

Child Focus was at the source of the initiative to group together at European level different NGOs dealing with the problem of the disappearance and sexual exploitation of children. The European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, created in June 2000, was officially launched on 4 May 2001 at the European Parliament. Apart from Child Focus for Belgium, 18 other NGOs are member, representing 14 other countries :

 

• Germany: Elternititiative Vermisste Kinder http://www.vermisste-kinder.org
Kisdorf
  Weisser Ring http://www.weisser-ring.de
Mainz
• United Kingdom: National Missing Persons Helpline http://www.missingpersons.org
NMPH, London
• Austria: 147 - Rat auf Draht" http://www.orf.at
Vienne
• Denmark: Thora Center http://www.thoracenter.dk
Copenhagen
• Spain: Accion Contra la Pornografia Infantil http://www.asociacion-acpi.org
ACPI, Madrid
• France: La Mouette http://www.lamouette.asso.fr
Agen
  Aide aux Parents d'Enfants Victimes http://www.apev.org
APEV, Issy-les-Moulineaux
  Fondation Pour l'Enfance http://www.fondation-enfance.org
Paris
• Greece: The Smile of the Child http://www.hamogelo.gr
Athens
• Hungary: Kék Vonal  
Budapest
• Ireland: Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children http:/www.ispcc.ie
ISPCC, Dublin
• Italy: Aurora - Centro Nazionale per la Ricerca dei Bambini Scomparsi e Sessualmente Abusati http://www.auroraonlus.org
Bologna
• Poland: Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje (Nobody's Children Foundation) http://www.free.ngo.pl/fdn
Warsaw
  Itaka Foundation http://www.itaka.org.pl
Warsaw
• Portugal: Instituto de Apoio à Criança http://www.iacrianca.pt
I.A.C., Lisbon
• Czech Republic: Nadace Nase Dite (Our Child Foundation) http://www.nasedite.cz
Prague
Associated member : • Roumania: Salvati - SCR. Bucharest
http://salvati.copiii.roknet.ro

 

The Federation, whose Chairman is Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer, who is also Chairman of Child Focus, is a humanitarian international association, whose flexible and open structure favours regular communication among the different members.

Missions
The Federation • acts independently, only in the interest of children, with reference to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child;
  • joins the efforts in the fight against the phenomena of missing and sexually exploited children towards national governments, European institutions and decision-makers;
  • raises awareness;
  • stimulates and conducts initiatives /activities to improve the situation of minors, victims of disappearance and/or sexual abuse, and to change the legal norms, the mentality and behavior in Europe;
  • facilitates communication between European organisations towards a more efficient approach to the fight against disappearance and sexual exploitation of minors;
  • creates, at the registered office of the Federation, a centre of information and documentation concerning the phenomena of disappearance and sexual exploitation of minors;
  • stimulates the creation of a European study centre to centralise and analyse data concerning these phenomena;
  • identifies preventive measures.

North America..........

 

South America..........

ABUELAS DE PLAZA DE MAYO
La Asociación Civil Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo somos una organización no-gubernamental que tiene como finalidad localizar y restituir a sus legítimas familias todos los niños secuestrados desaparecidos por la represión política, y crear las condiciones para que nunca más se repita tan terrible violación de los derechos de los niños, exigiendo castigo a todos los responsables.
 

Red Latinoamericanos Desaparecidos (Latin American Network for Missing Children)

Para hacer una busqueda en toda latinamericana: Haga clic arriba

 

 

              Tsunami Relief Effort - help the children

         


 
 
 
Global News
05/04/2001 The European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, created in June 2000, was officially launched at the European Parliament. 19 member NGOs, representing 15 countries.

04/23/1999 At the British Embassy in Washington, DC, the First Ladies of the United States and the United Kingdom helped launch the new International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC). Its mission is to create and lead a coordinated, global response to the problems of international child abduction and child sexual exploitation.

04/23/1999 "These matters are not just about individual children and the pain of victim parents, they are questions of human rights." Hilary Clinton - ICMEC Launch.

1985 The first protest march by a "left behind" father was held in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. The protest was against the actions of a parent who had removed a child from the United States and retained the child outside the U.S. against the wishes of her father.

 05/25/1983 Seit 1983 wird der internationale -Tag der vermissten Kinder- von vielen Familien und Organisationen weltweit begangen. Der 25. Mai wurde vom amerikanischen Präsidenten zum -Tag der vermissten Kinder- erklärt, nachdem am 25.Mai der 6 Jahre alte Etan Patz aus New York auf dem Weg zur Schule verschwunden ist.

QUICK VOTE- ABDUCTION POLL

How should the law respond to parents who abduct their children during a divorce? Click Here     

 
 
COPYRIGHT (C) 2005 Child Abduction Resource Center ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Home • Link2me • Store • Poll • Legal Resources • Global Resources • United States Resources • About Us • Contact Us