Current Affairs International Missing Children's Day: up to ten thousand Czech children go missing every year

24-05-2005 14:43 | Dita Asiedu

Every year the Czech police receive several thousand reports of missing children. In 2004, the figure came close to ten thousand - that's in a country with a population of only ten million. With this Wednesday declared International Missing Children's Day, humanitarian organisations hope to bring awareness to the large number of children missing around the world and join forces to find more effective ways to reduce that number. Dita Asiedu looks at the situation here in the Czech Republic:

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