Save the Children: Serbia Has Endorsed International Recommendations for Improving Children’s Rights (Photo:PrintScreen rm.coe.int)
On Aug. 30, on occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Novi Sad’s Center for Missing and Exploited Children requested that the Serbian authorities create an official public registry of missing persons.
In its press release, the Center stated that, aside from the unofficial registry it created, available at www.nestalisrbija.rs, Serbia does not have any official such listing.
“Our goal is for Serbia to create an official public registry of missing persons, like most European countries have, so that the public is properly informed about how many people are going missing and who those people are, but also to enable the public to participate in searching for those considered missing,” the statement reads.
According to Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs official data, 1,677 adults were reported missing in the country last year. Of these, 1,493 were eventually located, which means that the whereabouts of 184 people remain unknown.
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