PACT charity has changed its name

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• we successfully campaigned for the introduction into the UK of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
  
• we played a key role in bringing the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to the UK.
  
• we have published [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], bringing new data and a wealth of understanding to the issue of child abduction
  
• we have produced two documentaries highlighting the significant problem of international parental child abduction
  

sharonl wrote:PACT charity has changed its name

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Action Against Abduction (formerly Parents and Abducted Children Together) was founded in 1999 by Lady (Catherine) Meyer, CBE. Catherine had herself suffered the tragedy of being forcibly separated from her two children (the story of her struggle to get her children back is vividly described in two books, Two Children Behind A Wall and They Are My Children Too). In 2012 Catherine was made a CBE by Her Majesty the Queen in her Jubilee Birthday Honours for “Services to Children and Families.”
Action Against Abduction has helped drive major changes to child protection policies in the UK and abroad. For example,

• we successfully campaigned for the introduction into the UK of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
  
• we played a key role in bringing the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to the UK.
  
• we have published [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], bringing new data and a wealth of understanding to the issue of child abduction
  
• we have produced two documentaries highlighting the significant problem of international parental child abduction
  

sharonl wrote:PACT charity has changed its name

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

[size=32]Beginnings[/size]

Action Against Abduction (formerly Parents and Abducted Children Together) was founded in 1999 by Lady (Catherine) Meyer, CBE. Catherine had herself suffered the tragedy of being forcibly separated from her two children (the story of her struggle to get her children back is vividly described in two books, Two Children Behind A Wall and They Are My Children Too). In 2012 Catherine was made a CBE by Her Majesty the Queen in her Jubilee Birthday Honours for “Services to Children and Families.”
Action Against Abduction has helped drive major changes to child protection policies in the UK and abroad. For example,

• we successfully campaigned for the introduction into the UK of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
  
• we played a key role in bringing the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to the UK.
  
• we have published [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], bringing new data and a wealth of understanding to the issue of child abduction
  
• we have produced two documentaries highlighting the significant problem of international parental child abduction
  

Verdi wrote:MACC - Mysteriously Abducted Children's Centre?   FACT - Fake Abduction Casualty Triangulation?

As we were walking up from the beach at about 5pm, I had a call from Cherie Blair, in her final days as wife of the prime minister (her husband Tony would announce his resignation two days later and leave office the following month). She was kind and helpful. She told me it was amazing but encouraging that Madeleine was still the first topic on the news every night.

This was only five days after the abduction: as it turned out, our poor daughter would continue to headline the bulletins for some time to come. Cherie also warned me, ‘Whatever happens, your life will never be the same again.’ She mentioned that a friend of hers, Catherine Meyer, was the founder of PACT – Parents and Abducted Children Together – and said she would get in touch with her on my behalf.

Doubtless I asked Cherie if there was anything the British government could offer the Portuguese in the way of resources to assist or expedite the search for Madeleine. It wasn’t my intention to make her feel uncomfortable by asking this, and I’m sure I didn’t. We were just so desperate I couldn’t let the opportunity go by.

madeleine by KATE MCCANN