Action Against Abduction

Action Against Abduction was established as PACT by Catherine Meyer in 1999.{{cite web |url=http://www.pact-online.org/our-story/ |title=Our beginnings |author= |date=c. 2015 |website=PACT |access-date=27 March 2015}}

10 October 2007, PACT and the National Missing Persons Bureau launched Missing Children TV, a TV channel showing photographs and information on some of the 100,000 children that go missing every year.{{where|date=April 2015}} Electronics Health Media (EHM) screened the channel in various hospital waiting rooms around the country.{{cn|date=December 2019}}

In 2012, PACT helped produce a website called "Missingkids", allowing law enforcement to disseminate photographs and descriptions of missing children alongside details of the circumstances of their disappearance.{{cite web |url=http://www.clearchannel.co.uk/clear-channel-partners-with-pact-to-launch-missingkids-website/ |title=Clear Channel partners with PACT to launch 'Missingkids' website |author= |date=23 May 2012 |website=Clear Channel |access-date=27 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090034/http://www.clearchannel.co.uk/clear-channel-partners-with-pact-to-launch-missingkids-website/ |url-status=dead }}

In 2014, PACT produced the British Child Abduction Hub, an information repository allowing for information related to child abduction to be spread publicly{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sign-up-to-child-rescue-alert-text-scheme-home-secretary-urges |title=Sign up to Child Rescue Alert text scheme, Home Secretary urges |author= |date=21 May 2014 |website=Gov.uk |access-date=27 March 2015}} via a "Child Rescue Alert", similar in concept to the American Amber Alert.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

The organization's name was changed to Action Against Abduction in 2015.{{cite web |title=We have changed our name |url=http://www.actionagainstabduction.org/name-change/ |website=Action Against Abduction |access-date=30 July 2022 |date=13 December 2015}}{{cite web |title=ACTION AGAINST ABDUCTION - Charity 1081904 |url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/3965767/full-print |website=register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk |access-date=30 July 2022}}

Over the years, PACT has partnered with various organizations to raise public awareness of the plight of missing and abducted children. British grocery chain Tesco has partnered with PACT since 2000 by displaying posters of missing children in select stores.{{cite web |url=http://www.tesco.com/missingchildren/ |title=Join The Search For the UK's Missing Children |author= |date=c. 2015 |website=Tesco |access-date=27 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110211/http://www.tesco.com/missingchildren/ |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead }} In 2006, engineering and management services corporation Emcor partnered with PACT by placing posters of missing children in the rear windows of some of their vehicles.{{cite web |url=http://www.emcoruk.com/who-we-are/missing-children |title=Missing Children |author= |date=c. 2014 |website=Emcor |publisher= |access-date=27 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402125035/http://www.emcoruk.com/who-we-are/missing-children |url-status=dead }} In March 2009, Emcor announced that four children featured on their posters had been found.{{cite web |url=http://www.emcoruk.com/news/pr2009/pr_2009_03_04.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730055314/http://www.emcoruk.com/news/pr2009/pr_2009_03_04.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-07-30 |title=EMCOR Group (UK) Poster Appeal For Missing Fang Shi |author= |date=March 2009 |website=Emcor |access-date=27 March 2015}}

PACT has produced a documentary entitled Victims of Another War that examines the damaging impact on three adults of their abduction as children.{{cite web |url=http://www.pact-online.org/films/ |title=Films |author= |date=c. 2015 |website=PACT |access-date=27 March 2015}} PACT has also produced a number of reports and research papers dealing with abduction and child protection services:{{cite web |url=http://www.pact-online.org/research/ |title=Research |author= |date=c. 2015 |website=PACT |access-date=27 March 2015}}

• Every Five Minutes (2005), which examined available data to try to establish the number of missing children in the UK.{{cite web |url=http://www.pact-online.org/portfolio/every-five-minutes-published-in-2005/ |title=Every Five Minutes |author= |date=c. 2015 |website=PACT |access-date=27 March 2015}}
• A Postcode Lottery (2006), which discussed the services rendered by various child protection agencies in the UK.{{cite web |url=http://www.pact-online.org/portfolio/a-postcode-lottery-published-in-2006/ |title=A Postcode Lottery |author= |date=c. 2015 |website=PACT |access-date=27 March 2015}}
• Beyond Every Five Minutes (2007).{{cite web |url=http://www.pact-online.org/portfolio/beyond-every-five-minutes-published-in-2007/ |title=Beyond Every Five Minutes |author= |date=c. 2015 |website=PACT |access-date=27 March 2015}}
• Taken (2013), which examined the extent of child abduction in the UK.{{cite web |url=http://www.pact-online.org/portfolio/taken-published-in-2013/ |title=Beyond Stranger Danger |author= |date=c. 2015 |website=PACT |access-date=27 March 2015}}
• In February 2015, PACT released a report examining the number of child abductions and kidnappings reported to police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.pact-online.org/police-recorded-child-abduction-and-kidnapping/ |title=Police-recorded child abduction and kidnapping figures |author= |date=22 February 2015 |website=PACT |access-date=27 March 2015}}

In May 2011, PACT's finances were called into question by the Mandrake gossip column of the Daily Telegraph.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8505534/Ambassadors-wife-faces-questions-over-Bush-and-Blairs-charity.html |title=Ambassador's wife faces questions |author= |date=May 2011 |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=21 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111227091416/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8505534/Ambassadors-wife-faces-questions-over-Bush-and-Blairs-charity.html |archive-date=December 27, 2011 }} PACT replied to these accusations in a letter to the Telegraph.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/8510271/If-we-must-have-a-referendum-on-Scottish-independence-lets-do-it-now.html |title=Charity Salary |author= |date=13 May 2011 |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=27 May 2015}}

• International child abduction in the United States
• Hague Abduction Convention

{{Reflist}}

• [http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1081904&SubsidiaryNumber=0 UK Charity Commission entry for PACT, with Financial Statements]
• [http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=text.display&tid=11 Hague Permanent Bureau]
• [http://www.pa-pa.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=120 Parental Alienation-Parenting Association (Pa-Pa)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717053901/http://pa-pa.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=120 |date=2010-07-17 }}
• [http://www.findmadeleine.com/missing-children/missing-children-organisations.html Find Madeleine: Missing Children Organisations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420224122/http://www.findmadeleine.com/missing-children/missing-children-organisations.html |date=2010-04-20 }}
• [https://travel.state.gov/family/abduction/Solutions/Solutions_3861.html US Department of State Helpful Links]
• [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/02/27152211/50 Review of Children Missing from Education (Scotland) Services]

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