The International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members is observed annually on 25 March by the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

. It commemorates the anniversary of the abduction of Alec Collett, a former journalist who was working for the

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA's mandate encompasses Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Pa ...

(UNRWA) when he was kidnapped by gunmen in 1985. His body was finally found in the

Bekaa Valley The Beqaa Valley ( ar, links=no, وادي البقاع, ', Lebanese ), also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa and known in classical antiquity as Coele-Syria, is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon. It is Lebanon's most important ...

, Lebanon, in 2009.

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* United Nations days March observances {{UN-stub