International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members is observed on March 25 every year.

Important Days

International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members is observed on March 25 every year by the United Nations (UN) to commemorate the abduction of a journalist named Alec Collett, who died while on a UN assignment. The world commemorates the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members on the day a former British journalist, Alec Collett, working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), was kidnapped. In 2009, his body was found in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. This resolution was signed by 43 UN member countries and as of now a total of 95 countries have ratified it.


     

     

     

 

     


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