Often, they are abducted from the safety of their own homes or neighbourhoods.
Two French security advisers were abducted from the hotel by militants in 2009.
Meanwhile, authorities in the Philippines said four of their nationals were among the nine abducted from the oil field.
United Nations officials said they could not rule out reports that people had been abducted from the camp.
The study interviewed an Eritrean woman living in Sweden who told them her son was abducted from the camp.
Wassef Ali Hassoun, an American marine who was abducted from the area around the city of Falluja late last month.
In the past both he and his wife have been abducted from the capital by local officials.
Things changed on Jan .2nd, when an infant, two hours old disappeared, clearly having been abducted, from the nursery of St. Peter's Catholic hospital in Bklyn.
Dr Deen Mohammad, who worked at a government hospital in the central Khuzdar district, was abducted from the hospital grounds one night in June 2009.
The 12 young people were abducted from the Heaven bar in a popular nightclub district steps away from Paseo de la Reforma, a major thoroughfare.
Japan wants the return of ten of its nationals, who it says were abducted from the Japanese coastline in the 1970s and early 1980s by North Korean agents.
