Missing Childrens Day on 25 May

May 25, 2026

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A protest action in Sofia against the war in Ukraine SOFIA, BULGARIA - FEBRUARY 24: A protest action with the placement of children s shoes in memory of the killed, injured, missing and kidnapped children in front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Sofia, Bulgaria on February 24, 2026. The occasion for the protest is the fourth anniversary of the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Hristo Vladev Anadolu Sofia Bulgaria. Editorial use only. Please get in touch for any other usage. Copyright: x2026xAnadoluxHristoxVladevx
Mothers And Fathers Of The 43 Missing Ayotzinapa Student Teachers Demand Justice 11 Years After Their Disappearance Normal school students take direct action while accompanying the mothers and fathers of the 43 missing children from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, who demonstrate outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 24, 2025, to demand justice and punishment for those responsible for the disappearance of their children almost 11 years after the events in Iguala, Guerrero. Mexico City Mexico City Mexico Copyright: xGerardoxVieyrax originalFilename: vieyra-notitle250924_npp98.jpg
Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice in Buenos Aires BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - MARCH 24: A view of a white scarf, the symbol of the fight to find the children kidnapped by the military during the dictatorship, and an emblem of democracy and the fight against authoritarian governments during a rally commemorating the victims of the military dictatorship in Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 24, 2024. Every March 24, thousands of Argentines take to the streets and squares of the country to commemorate the dictatorship of the Argentine republican era. It was estimated that in the city of Buenos Aires 400,000 people filled the historic Plaza de Mayo supporting the Grandmothers and Mothers of Plaza de Mayo , who worked to res Copyright: x2025xAnadoluxLucianoxGonzalezx
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances in Colombia BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - AUGUST 30: Pictures of people who once disappeared are displayed on the street during the international day of the victims of enforced disappearances in Bogota, Colombia on August 30, 2024. In Colombia, the heartache of disappearance is a daily reality for many families. On average, every 36 hours, someone goes missing amid the violence and conflict. This ongoing crisis affects countless individuals, including over 300 children. Colombia World. Editorial use only. Please get in touch for any other usage. Copyright: x2025xAnadoluxJuanchoxTorresx
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances in Colombia BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - AUGUST 30: Pictures of people who once disappeared are displayed on the street during the international day of the victims of enforced disappearances in Bogota, Colombia on August 30, 2024. In Colombia, the heartache of disappearance is a daily reality for many families. On average, every 36 hours, someone goes missing amid the violence and conflict. This ongoing crisis affects countless individuals, including over 300 children. Colombia World. Editorial use only. Please get in touch for any other usage. Copyright: x2025xAnadoluxJuanchoxTorresx
June 1, 2025, London, England, United Kingdom: Protesters gather in Parliament Square demanding the release of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia and an end to Russian aggression in Ukraine. London United Kingdom - ZUMAv130 20250601_zip_v130_020 Copyright: xVukxValcicx
WINSCHOTEN - The Veterans Search Team is combing City Park during the search for kidnapped children Jeffrey and Emma. The lives of the two, who were abducted by their father, are feared for. ANP JILMER POSTMA netherlands out - belgium out Copyright: xx x528142667x originalFilename: 528142667.jpg
Black Mothers March In Washington DC A demonstrator is seen while people march against Child Protective Services (CPS) in Washington, DC, USA, on May 11, 2025. They refer to this as a family policing system and condemn the policies that target and separate Black families. CPS is a government agency in the United States that investigates allegations of child abuse or neglect. Washington DC United States Copyright: xAashishxKiphayetx originalFilename: kiphayet-blackmot250511_npVr0.jpg
Palestinian man Feras Wishah, 40, is living in a tent erected atop the ruins of his destroyed home in Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, on 03 May 2025. after losing 18 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their house Palestinian man Feras Wishah, 40, is living in a tent erected atop the ruins of his destroyed home in Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, on 03 May 2025. after losing 18 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their house. He continues to search through the rubble for the bodies of other relatives still missing beneath the debris. Among the few things he has salvaged are his children s toys, which he has placed outside the tent — a small attempt to preserve the memory of thos Copyright: xapaimagesxMoizxSalhixx xapaimagesx
Members of collectives of searching mothers place cardboard figures of missing girls during a demonstration to demand justice for their missing relatives as part of the International Women s Day outside the National Palace. on March 5, 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexico City Mexico - ZUMAe321 20250305_zia_e321_050 Copyright: xCarlosxSantiagox
Members of collectives of searching mothers paste banners of missing girls during a demonstration to demand justice for their missing relatives as part of the International Women s Day outside the National Palace. on March 5, 2025 in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexico City Mexico - ZUMAe321 20250305_zia_e321_047 Copyright: xCarlosxSantiagox
4 Children Disappeared in Quito, Ecuador - 23 Dec 2024 A banner and cardboard dummies of soldiers are being burnt during the rally. After several days of fear, hundreds of people have demonstrated peacefully under the fruitfulness and anger of the country s violence. Specifically because on the 8th of December 2024, four children disappeared in the south of Guayaquil, Ecuador, in the sector of Las Malvinas. Their names are Steven (11 years old), Nehemías (15), Josué (14) and Ismael (15). According to the parents testimonies, the children were intercepted by vehicles with people dressed in military uniforms, who stopped them and took them to the Taura air base. One of the children contacted his family and said that they had been beaten and Copyright: xVeronicaxLombeidax xSOPAxImagesx _DSC2695
RECORD DATE NOT STATED Billboard of Kidnapped Israeli children, New York City A billboard on the side of a building in New York City depicting the children kidnapped by Hamas and the plea to bring them home now kidnapped from israel. Copyright: DebxCohn-Orbach 4067_48_DCO23_11_9280
February 7, 2024: Police patrol car at night, with the blue light inscription:Missing. Symbolic image for search for persons and close-range search. PHOTOMONTAGE
Posters of children being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, hang outside the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Thursday, November 23, 2023. Qatar announced that the Israel-Hamas hostage deal will begin at 7 a.m. Friday when the war will pause starting the agreement for Hamas to the release 50 Israeli hostages, children and women, and for Israel to release of 150 Palestinian security prisoners, women and male teenagers. JER2023112302 DEBBIExHILL
October 29, 2023, London, England, UK: The Empty Shabbat Table installation for the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The installation, featuring set tables and empty chairs with posters of people and children held hostage by Hamas, is open to the public at the JW3 Jewish community centre in Finchley. London UK - ZUMAv130 20231029_zip_v130_011 Copyright: xVukxValcicx
October 20, 2023, Tel Aviv, Israel: Israeli families of the hostages conduct a Kabbalat Shabbat, welcoming of the sabbath ceremony, next to a set table surrounded by 203 empty chairs waiting for the hostages and missing to return, near the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Israel is engaged in a war with Hamas of the Gaza Strip following massive rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel, infiltration of gunmen into Israeli territory, massacre of civilian women and children in their homes and hostage taking of civilians and soldiers. 300,000 reservists have been deployed and the Israeli Air Force is massively bombing Gaza in preparation for the next stage of warfare. Tel Aviv Israel - ZUMAa126 20231020_zap_a126_005 Copyright: xNirxAlonx
Parents and family of Gaza hostages protest in Tel Aviv Israel, Tel Aviv, Hakirya on 17 10 2023 Pictures of the missing Israeli hostages on the wall of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv and wishes handwritten on A4 paper No Human Shelter Bring them Back Save the Kids We are Kinds S O S home Bring our People back
Russia International Missing Children s Day 8441708 24.05.2023 Cadets of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry s State Fire Service Academy and volunteers of the National Centre for Missing and Affected Children gather near lit candles forming the forget-me-not flower symbol during an event on the eve of the International Missing Children s Day at Poklonnaya Gora War Memorial Park in Moscow, Russia. Ilya Pitalev Sputnik Moscow Russia Copyright: xIlyaxPitalevx
CLEO SMITH FOUND WA, A Missing Child sticker is seen on a police vehicle parked outside the house where missing girl Cleo Smith (4) was rescued by Western Australian Police yesterday morning in Carnarvon, 900km north of the capital Perth in Western Australia, Thursday, November 4, 2021. Four-year-old Cleo Smith has been found alive and well by West Australian police, more than two weeks after she disappeared from her family s tent at a remote West Australian campsite. ( NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO USE IN BOOKS WITHOUT CONSENT CARNARVON WA AUSTRALIA Copyright: xRICHARDxWAINWRIGHTx 20211104001592543971
Tatort Spielplatz. Ein Plüschbär auf einer Schaukel Verbrechen
verlorenes Kuscheltier 30.10.2016
Polizistin verteilt Flugblätter mit Fotos des vermissten Mädchens Michelle in Leipzig

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June 1, 2025, London, England, United Kingdom: Protesters gather in Parliament Square demanding the release of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia and an end to Russian aggression in Ukraine. London United Kingdom - ZUMAv130 20250601_zip_v130_020 Copyright: xVukxValcicx

WINSCHOTEN - The Veterans Search Team is combing City Park during the search for kidnapped children Jeffrey and Emma. The lives of the two, who were abducted by their father, are feared for. ANP JILMER POSTMA netherlands out - belgium out Copyright: xx x528142667x originalFilename: 528142667.jpg

RECORD DATE NOT STATED Billboard of Kidnapped Israeli children, New York City A billboard on the side of a building in New York City depicting the children kidnapped by Hamas and the plea to bring them home now kidnapped from israel. Copyright: DebxCohn-Orbach 4067_48_DCO23_11_9280

February 7, 2024: Police patrol car at night, with the blue light inscription:Missing. Symbolic image for search for persons and close-range search. PHOTOMONTAGE

Tatort Spielplatz. Ein Plüschbär auf einer Schaukel Verbrechen

verlorenes Kuscheltier 30.10.2016

Polizistin verteilt Flugblätter mit Fotos des vermissten Mädchens Michelle in Leipzig