The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), founded in 1998 and launched by the U.S.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 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;
• Advocating and proposing legislative changes in laws, treaties, and systems to protect children worldwide;
• Conducting International expert conferences to build awareness, encourage and increase cooperation and collaboration between and among countries; and
• Working along side financial industry and law enforcement to combat commercial child-sexual exploitation.