Episodes

  • How is Europe tackling the unaccompanied missing minors crisis

    How is Europe tackling the unaccompanied missing minors crisis
    Jul 17 2024

    In recent years, Europe has witnessed a surge in human mobility, which regrettably includes children. In 2022, the influx of migrant children into Europe rose by almost 50% compared to the previous year. Tragically, a significant portion of these children subsequently go missing. NGOs such as Child Focus and Missing Children Europe are dedicated to aiding in the search for these missing children.

    According to Lost in Europe, a cross-border journalism project investigating the disappearance of child migrants in Europe more than 51,000 unaccompanied minors went missing in Europe between 2021-2023.


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    41 mins
  • The importance of case reviews and the use of technology in cold cases

    The importance of case reviews and the use of technology in cold cases
    Jul 3 2024
    In this episode Karen talks to Cheryl about long term missing cases and how challenging they are to investigate. The need to use new technology and investigative methods to help bring closure to families.

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    33 mins
  • The critial balance between high publicity appeals and privacy for the missing person

    The critial balance between high publicity appeals and privacy for the missing person
    Jun 19 2024
    In this episode we talk to Simona Ciobotaru, Senior Lecturer in Cybercrime at the University of Portsmouth about the complex issue of media bias on missing person cases. Research has shown that media has been bias to highlighting white women who are missing then others. We discuss why and how we can help to change it?

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    34 mins
  • How is trauma therapy helping after a missing episode?

    How is trauma therapy helping after a missing episode?
    Jun 5 2024
    In this episode, Karen talks to Pascale Waschnig about different forms of trauma encountered during a missing episode and from services that are in contact with relatives of missing people and how art can assist in expressing the trauma a person has experienced.



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    28 mins
  • What are families faced with when a person is missing?

    What are families faced with when a person is missing?
    May 22 2024
    Parental alienation is a label which is popularly used to describe a dynamic where a child rejects a parent. Karen Woodall is a psychotherapist who treats this problem from a relational perspective recognising that children who reject a parent are usually those who are hyper aligned to a caregiver who is causing them harm. Thinking about the issue from the experience of the child, offers a clearer understanding of this much misunderstood problem in family separation.

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    37 mins
  • Missing Young Girls in Nigeria used in Baby factories

    Missing Young Girls in Nigeria used in Baby factories
    May 8 2024
    In this episode, Karen talks to Ugochi Nkwunonwo about her recent research in baby factories in Nigeria. Young girls who are pregnant are stigmatised in Nigeria. To avoid shame they disappear and sometimes end up in baby factories where they give birth and lose their newborn. Not only is the young girl missing but the newborn is also missing as it has no identity.

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    36 mins