Death toll from Philippines landslide jumps to 68
Manila, Philippines Reuters The death toll from a landslide in the southern Philippines has climbed to 68 as officials said on Monday the window of finding more survivors is closing. Search and rescue operations continue following a landslide in the village of Masara, Maco, Davao de Oro, Philippines, on 8th February, 2024. PICTURE: Reuters/Mark Navales/ […]
Painstaking work: Armed with new tech, families track down Mexico’s missing
From social media to online legal templates, Mexican families are using tech to search for missing relatives and pressure officials into action. DIANA BAPTISTA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Updated: Malaysia landslide kills 12 at campsite, more than 20 missing
Updated: 4pm (AEST)Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaReuters A landslide killed at least 12 people while they slept at a campsite in Malaysia early on Friday, officials said, as search teams scoured thick mud and downed trees for more than 20 people still missing. The landslide in Selangor state, on the outskirts of capital, Kuala Lumpur, occurred about […]
More than 15,000 people missing in war in Ukraine, says official
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters More than 15,000 people have gone missing during the war in Ukraine, an official at the International Commission on Missing Persons said on Thursday. The Hague-based organisation, created in the wake of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, opened an office in Kyiv in July to help Ukraine to document and track down […]
Mexico’s official ‘disappeared’ list grows to more than 100,000
Mexico City, MexicoReuters The number of people officially listed as disappeared in Mexico has risen to more than 100,000, government data showed on Monday, as family groups called on authorities to do more to find victims of violence linked to organised crime. The Interior Ministry’s national registry of missing people dates back to 1964 and […]
Native Americans get voice in how to handle cases of missing, murdered
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USThomson Reuters Foundation For nearly two years, Aubrey Dameron, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, has been missing. Last seen in March 2019, Dameron disappeared while leaving her mother’s rural home early in the morning. Her family has been following various leads, including draining a pond near her home, but is […]
Mexico’s missing people agency searching for trafficking victims
Mexico City, MexicoThomson Reuters Foundation From young men forced to work as hitmen to missing migrants, Mexico will be on the lookout for potential victims of human trafficking as it searches for tens of thousands of people who are registered as disappeared, a leading official said. More than 40,000 people are listed as missing in […]
Hundreds of trafficked children go missing from UK care homes
Thomson Reuters Foundation A growing number of trafficked children in Britain are going missing from care homes, with some feared to be returning to their traffickers after being treated like criminals or illegal immigrants by authorities, two charities said on Wednesday. A quarter of the 1,015 identified or suspected child trafficking victims in the care […]