Persons Day News Today

Local families in Cook County had their hope restored Saturday after receiving help in their searches for missing loved ones.

Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C-Ballston Lake) emceed the 21st annual Missing Persons Day Ceremony at the NYS Museum and Cultural Education Center, which is sponsored by the Center for Hope. The event brings together family members of missing persons from across the state to share ways of coping and keeping hope alive, to prevent abductions and […]

The latest Google doodle pays tribute to Violent King Henry, a Calgary trailblazer who was the first Black woman to practice law in Canada.

A famous Calgarian known for breaking barriers as the first Black woman to practise law in Canada is being recognized by Google.

Minister of Homeland Security Ken Zikhale Ng’oma says government is adopting a tougher stance on perpetrators of trafficking in persons in response to global calls to end the vice. The minister said this on Friday ahead of the commemoration of the World Trafficking in Persons Day set aside by the United Nations to be commemorated

Last March was officially Irish Heritage Month in Canada, and you didn’t need the federal Heritage Department to tell you so. The Fenian, Republican a...

Women’s History Month celebrates the often-overlooked contributions of women in history, society, and culture.

March of every year is celebrated as National Women’s Month in the Philippines. In the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, March is celebrated as Women’s History Month, corresponding with International Women’s Day on March 8. Women’s History Month was proclaimed in Canada in 1992 to give Canadians “an…

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Families of missing people are being encouraged to provide a DNA sample to Gardaí at an annual ceremony marking National Missing Persons Day.  Today...