Missing Children Europe is seeking to recruit a volunteer to support the Brussels based General Secretariat in preparation of project budgets&annual accounts, support the development of financial reports as well as other administrative tasks related to the day to day running of the finances. 

Missing Children Europe is looking to recruit a versatile and dynamic Project Officer with a true passion for children’s rights, to coordinate activities and advocate for policy change in the field of missing children, in particular related to runaways and the 116 000 hotline network. 

Missing Children Europe and its partners want to radically improve the ways that professionals cooperate across borders in their response to missing and trafficked children in migration. 

To create a more welcoming society for all children, we must look at the way each of us talks about migration and the children affected by it. 

With this global week, we aim to promote the importance of family mediation in parental abduction cases, which provides a successful solution in child abduction cases. Unfortunately, mediation still remains a solution that is not sufficiently used in Europe.

Missing Children Europe is seeking to recruit an Intern in Administration/Finances to support the Brussels’ based General Secretariat starting October 2019 for a 5 to 6 months period.

The criminalisation of solidarity in Europe is soaring. The number of individuals criminalised for humanitarian activities has grown tenfold, from 10 people in 2015 to 104 in 2018.

Summer is here, bringing with it the hard-to-resist promise of sun, sea and loved ones. Yet, the holiday season can also be a stressful time for families travelling. From navigating within large crowds to getting acquainted with an unfamiliar place, we understand the struggle of balancing sightseeing without losing sight of your kids.

We welcome the update to the 2003 Regulation. We are very pleased that the Brussels IIa recast gives more visibility to mediation and alternative dispute resolution. We regret however that while remaining a right of the child, hearing the child is under the revised Regulation still no absolute obligation.

To understand why children go missing and if prevention and support responses are effective, Missing Children Europe analyses and launches the Figures and Trends on missing children report, every year.

 

“I thought that I would get the opportunity to tell my story and talk about the things that mattered to me. But it was nothing like that. The conversation was more like a cross-examination.”