Considering the recent attention that the Gabby Petito case received (which is not undeserved), it has brought light to the fact yet again that missing people are not treated the same.  We Demand Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Instagram and Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone of Twitter to use the technology, functionalities, algorithms to automatically Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to support missing persons organizations, missing persons and families of the missing to help find missing people.  We demand that all missing people’s cases are treated, highlighted and considered the same and that they all get fair attention on social media.

As Siblings of Missing people, International Siblings of the Missing understand first hand, the pain, trauma and suffering that is experienced when you have to take matters into your own hands on social media to try and find your missing loved one.

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Families of missing people use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms to regularly and tirelessly campaign to try and find our missing loved ones.

A missing person might be children or adults who may be victims to Human Trafficking, may have mysteriously of disappeared, may have been kidnapped, may be presumed murdered or many other ways that they go missing.  Missing people can be any color, creed, religion, or sexuality.

What they all have in common is that they are all human beings, with loving families, friends and loved ones who are doing everything g they can to find them.

Often times there is a media bias about which missing person case is highlighted over others.  Some cases never ever received the attention they need.

Most missing persons cases on this planet are posted on social media in a desperate attempt to find loved ones.

We want Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Instagram and Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone of Twitter to help all the families of missing loved ones, by using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (and other social media platforms) to build awareness of the missing people issue.   It is their responsibility to use their platforms to support this petition and support missing persons world wide.

• We need Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Instagram and Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone of Twitter to automatically feature all missing people (globally) on social media.
•  We need Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Instagram and Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone of Twitter to use the algorithms, facial recognition, functionality and technology of social media to create more awareness for the missing issue.
• We need Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Instagram and Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone of Twitter to use their power and platform to help find missing people.

Some statistics about Missing People:

•  In The UK, according to Missing People UK - www.missingpeople.org.uk 
  • Someone is reported missing every 90 seconds in the UK  
  • 170,000 people are reported missing every year  
  • There are 353,000 reported missing incidents every year  
• For children specifically, according to https://globalmissingkids.org/awareness/missing-children-statistics/
• In Australia, an estimated 20,000 children are reported missing every year.
  • §  Australian Federal Police, National Coordination Centre.
• In Canada, an estimated 45,288 children are reported missing each year.
  • §  Government of Canada, Canada’s Missing – 2015 Fast Fact Sheet.
•  In Germany, an estimated 100,000 children are reported missing each year.
  • §  Initiative Vermisste Kinder.
• In India, an estimated 96,000 children go missing each year.
  • §  Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Missing Children of India.
• In Jamaica, an estimated 1,984 children were reporting missing in 2015.
  • §  Jamaica’s Office of Children’s Registry
• In Russia, an estimated 45,000 children were reported missing in 2015.
  • §  Interview with Pavel Astakhov MIA “Russia Today”, Apr. 4, 2016.
•  In Spain, an estimated 20,000 children are reported missing every year.
  • §  Spain Joins EU Hotline for Missing Children, Sep. 22, 2010.
• In the United Kingdom, an estimated 112,853 children are reported missing every year.
  • §  National Crime Agency, UK Missing Persons Bureau.
• In the United States, an estimated 460,000 children are reported missing every year.
  • §  Federal Bureau of Investigation, NCIC.
•  In the United States:
  • According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons (NamUS -https://www.namus.gov/Dashboard database, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 600,000 persons of all ages go missing every year, and approximately 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered every year.

These are only SOME statistics that show the impact of the missing person issue.  We need more help to create a larger global community focused on this issue, and we need to help solve missing people cases by spreading more awareness and information to the world.