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Missing Rights Campaign

If your house is burgled you are automatically offered emotional, practical and legal support. If your child goes missing you may get nothing. 

We are calling on the Government to give families of missing people the same basic rights as victims of crime.

Over 250,000 people go missing in the UK every year. While most of us will have read or heard about a disappearance, little is understood about the emotional, legal and financial burdens it can bring to those closest to the missing person. Families left behind face their homes being seized, jobs being lost, divorce, social stigma and suicidal thoughts. 

Our Missing Rights campaign has three aims:

               

Show your support for families of missing people on our virtual ‘Wall of Reminders’. In March 2011 a group of families will present these messages to the Prime Minister.

Show your support 

Email us your message of support for the campaign and we'll put it on the online Missing Rights Wall of  Reminders, and let you know when the wall is up for you to see - marketing@missingpeople.org.uk 

Show your support for the campaign by displaying the MIssing Rights Twibbon on your Twitter and Facebook profiles, ‘Like’ us on Facebook or simply make a donation to the campaign.

                    

                   

If someone you love has gone missing and you would like to share your story please email pr@missingpeople.org.uk.

via missingpeople.org.uk