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International Missing Children's Day 2024 - May 25
May 27 , 2024
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- It aims to spotlight the plight of missing children, raise awareness, and reinforce the ongoing efforts to reunite families.
- This started with the case of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City on May 25, 1979, who was abducted from the bus while heading to school.
- In 1983, President Ronald Reagan declared National Missing Children’s Day to recognize the countless children who vanish annually.
- More than 47,313 children are missing in India, according to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), with 71.4 per cent of these being minor girls.
- Data for 2022 showed that the West Bengal had the highest number of missing children — 12,455 (1,884 boys and 10,571 girls).
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