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.

Child rights organisations across Europe today have joined forces to recruit a new generation of Members of Parliament (MEPs) to protect and defend children’s rights when elected in May.

Missing Children Europe is launching its own #10YearChallenge to bring attention to cases of long-term disappearances, where we are forced to imagine how that missing child may look today.

How often are children abducted? Should we still be teaching our kids about Stranger Danger? There are many questions and common misunderstandings about children that go missing. Missing Children Europe wants to set the record straight and put these myths to rest once and for all.