Multiplier events in Aarhus, Denmark Two multiplier events were held In Denmark. The first took place on September 6th at SOSU Ostjylland and the second on September 24th at DOKK1 in Aarhus, Denmark. The most challenging area for Denmark, regarding missing people, is people with dementia. More than twice as many people with dementia disappears…
The Multiplier Event for the European Project “LOST” is completed On Tuesday, September 10, the Multiplier Event for the European Project LOST was carried out by p-consulting.gr, project partner in Greece. The event took place at the Chamber of Achaia. The Multiplier Event focused on the disappearances in Greece and Europe. The purpose of the…
Multiplier event in Perugia, Italy The Perugia multiplier event was organized in collaboration with the SIULP Partner (Police Syndicate) on 15 July 2019 from 9.00 am to 13.00 pm at the Perugia Police Headquarters. The meeting was held by the leading Italian experts in the field of disappearance. The event was attended by 40 people,…
IPR information sessions in schools in Portugal About 1,400 children are reported missing each year in Portugal, but only 10 of these are related to crimes. The vast majority are voluntary teenage breakouts, which are eventually found. Every year about 1,400 children are reported missing in Portugal. The number – which corresponds to four disappearances…
Multiplier event in Madrid, Spain SOSDesparecidos presented the European course to train professionals to face the problem of missing people in Europe at the National Center of Disappearance (Madrid, Spain). This training has been developed under the European Project LOST together with other European partners. It’s important to highlight that this kind of training is…
In Zealand, people typically disappear in the woods-in Jutland it is mostly near water. But securing the port of Aalborg has, according to the organisation, helped… When the phone rings at the home of Vivian Eriksen in Rebild, her husband occasionally puts his head on cocked and listens. If the word “emergency search” appears,…
How to improve the protection of migrant and refugee children at risk of abuse, traffic and exploitation? The number of missing persons is the highest since the end of the Second World War. Nevertheless it is impossible to give an exact figure. But is this given the necessary importance? Is this problem acknowledged? In this…
Training in Perugia On February 25th, 26th and 27th 2019, at the “Falcone – Borsellino” hall of the Province of Perugia, a course was held, lasting a total of 24 hours, addressed to all police officers, lawyers, prefectural staff, and other interested parties. This was the first pilot course for the training of “specialized personnel…
Over 100,000 missing people worldwide… According to recent statistics from the Red Cross, in 2018 the missing persons worldwide are more than 100,000. This figure is a negative global record, creating the conditions for a global unprecedented crisis. Therefore, the challenges, which organisations involved to researches for finding disappeared people, are constantly increasing. New data sows that…
International Day of the Disappeared International Day of the Disappeared is held annually on the 30th August and gives the chance to draw attention to the worrying phenomenon of peoples’ disappearance. The impulse for the day came from the Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of Detained-Disappeared (Federación Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Familiares de…
