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OUR HISTORY
Responding to tragedy
Created as a “reaction” to heinous crimes
committed against children, we now take a
proactive approach to child protection.
Belgian Prime Minster Dehaene turned to the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children (NCMEC) for help.
In the late 1990s, NCMEC had found itself responding to numerous requests for assistance from
individuals and organizations around the world. The “Dutroux Affair” was the latest. So when Prime
Minister Dehaene asked NCMEC to help establish a center in Brussels, NCMEC’s President replied,
“You do not need an American solution to this problem — you need a Belgian solution.”
With the volume of requests for assistance from abroad exceeding NCMEC’s capacity to respond, the
Board of Directors authorized the creation of a new organization that would devote itself to doing
globally what NCMEC was committed to doing in the United States.
A year later, members of the Board of Directors for the International Centre for Missing and
Exploited Children (ICMEC) held their first meeting in 1998, and ICMEC was launched in April
1999.
ICMEC was born out of tragedy, created as a reaction to heinous crimes committed against children.
Since our inception, we have worked to safeguard children from abduction, sexual abuse and
exploitation, partnering with governments, academia, law enforcement, and the NGO community,
to offer a range of practical measures that protect children.
Since we opened our doors to the world we have trained over 10,500 law enforcement officers. We
have contributed substantially to both new and refined laws against child pornography in 127
countries. We have expanded the Global Missing Children’s Network; 25 countries are now
members. We have advocated for the commemoration of International Missing Children’s Day,
which is presently recognized on May 25th in 17 countries across four continents. And we have
expanded our global partnerships.
With each new partnership, each new initiative, we take another step toward our goal of making the
world safer for children.
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