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May 24, 2023 · The Missing Persons Center worldwide map of missing people provides users with a comprehensive and up-to-date view of individuals who are reported as missing across the globe. This interactive map serves as a valuable resource for raising awareness and facilitating efforts to locate missing persons.
Sep 11, 2024 · A missing person is anyone whose whereabouts are not known and who is being sought by another person or other persons.
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons.
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In the field of armed conflict an extraordinary shift has occurred in the course of the last century that has compounded the problem of missing persons. A ratio of 10 civilian deaths for every combatant killed has been reported for wars fought since the mid-20thcentury. By contrast, for World War One that ratio has been estimated at nine combatant ...
Authoritarian regimes continue to use the practice of “enforced disappearance” as an instrument of social and political control. Since illegal arrest and detention is, by its nature, devoid of accountability or due process, families of those who have been “disappeared” have no recourse to the law. The absence of the victim and the anonymity of the ...
Natural disasters, such as the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami or the 2012 earthquake in Haiti,have left hundreds of thousands of missing. Although there are no reliable or comprehensive statistics regarding numbers of persons who go missing every year as a result of disasters, the increased frequency of destructive weather patterns and seismic ...
The rise of the illegal narcotics industry in South and Central America has produced a toxic combination of drug cartels, right-wing and left-wing paramilitaries and heavy-handed security forces. In every instance, this has resulted in an epidemic of intimidation, murder and disappearance. In Mexico,almost 3,000 people were killed in the first year...
The International Organization for Migration(IOM) estimates that one billion people – out of seven billion people on the planet – are today part of a migratory movement. Thousands go missing every year on journeys across inhospitable terrain, on the high seas aboard unsuitable and overcrowded vessels, and crossing dangerous borders often at the mer...
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime issued a reportin 2009, which suggested that the problem of people trafficking is likely to be significantly greater than had been generally imagined. While large numbers of people go missing every year as a result of migration, many at the mercy of people smugglers, trafficking and smuggling are fundamentally diffe...
The overwhelming majority of persons missing from armed conflict are male civilians, and men similarly tend to be the principal victims in regard to organized crime, though people traffickers connected to the global sex industry disproportionately target women and children. A report published in October 2014found that in the United States, male and...
The vast scale and the pernicious nature of the phenomenon of missing persons in the 21stcentury is still becoming apparent and the global response to this global crisis is still evolving. ICMP is the only international organization that addresses every kind of involuntary disappearance – whether the result of migration, natural disaster, political...
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Jun 1, 2021 · A countless number of individuals go missing globally each year due to crime, conflicts, accidents or natural disasters. By late 2020, over 12,000 active Yellow Notices – international police alerts for missing persons – had been issued by the INTERPOL General Secretariat.
