The parents of missing Madeleine McCann have vowed not to lose hope as International Missing Children's Day is marked around the world.
Madeleine, four, will be the focus of many international events more than three weeks after she was snatched from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia Da Luz on the Algarve, Portugal.
In a message carried in the Portuguese press, Gerry and Kate McCann identified with parents of missing children in all countries.
"We, like parents of missing children around the world, will not lose hope," they said.
In Britain, Mr McCann's brother John will visit the London head office of the National Missing Persons Helpline to highlight its work.
Last night Madeleine's image was projected on Marble Arch in London as part of the appeal for information on her whereabouts.
Today she will be the focus of events across Europe, including in Portugal, where her mother Kate is expected to attend a private lunch with a children's charity.
International Missing Children's Day originates from the disappearance on May 25, 1979, of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York.
Over subsequent years his case was kept in the public eye by various organisations and in 1983 US President Ronald Reagan declared May 25 "Missing Children's Day" in America.
The tradition spread to Canada three years later and has since been adopted around the world including the European Union.
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