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International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), founded in 1998 and launched by the U.S.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), works to identify and coordinate a global network of organizations fighting child-sexual exploitation and abduction. ICMEC’s work brings promise to children and families by: establishing a global resource to find missing children and prevent child-sexual exploitation; creating national centers and affiliates worldwide; building an international network to disseminate images of and information about missing and exploited children; providing training to law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, legal professionals, nongovernmental organizations, and government officials; and advocating for changes in laws, treaties, and systems to protect children worldwide.
NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit organization to provide services in the United States for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children. Pursuant to its mission and congressional mandates, NCMEC: serves as a clearinghouse of information about missing and exploited children; operates a CyberTipline that the public may use to report Internet-related child sexual exploitation; provides technical assistance to individuals and law-enforcement agencies in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children; assists the U.S. Department of State in certain cases of international child abduction in accordance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; offers training programs to law-enforcement and social-service professionals; distributes photographs and descriptions of missing children worldwide; coordinates child-protection efforts with the private sector; networks with nonprofit service providers and state clearinghouses about missing-persons cases; and provides information about effective state child-protection legislation.
To report a missing child in the United States, please contact NCMEC via telephone at 1-800-THE-LOST or visit www.missingkids.com for more information. If you have any information on child sexual exploitation in the United States or in any other country, please make a report at www.cybertipline.com.
Please click on the link below to view the ICMEC 2007 Spring Newsletter
ICMEC 2007 Spring Newsletter
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