Partners who make a difference
These are people or organisations that support us on a daily basis because together we are more efficient when it comes to a missing child, since every minute counts.
Non-governmental organisations
Child Focus
As the proprietor of the 116 000 hotline number, the Child Focus Foundation is committed to the fight against sexual exploitation and the disappearance of minors in Belgium.
MCE
Missing Children Europe is the umbrella organisation in charge of coordinating and harmonising 116 000 hotlines in Europe.
This organisation works to ensure that each country in Europe has adequate procedures in place to provide qualitative monitoring of calls on hotlines.
Missing Children Europe supports its network with information on best practices and collects data for statistical purposes.
The foundation also shares its publications on the phenomenon of missing minors and provides logistical support to enable emerging organisations to disseminate awareness videos and make themselves known.
ICMEC
Ce réseau international lutte contre l'exploitation sexuelle des enfants, la pédopornographie et les enlèvements d'enfants dans le monde.
Le réseau "International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children", basé aux États-Unis, réunit les organisations de 29 pays. Sa mission vise à identifier les lacunes dans les systèmes de protection des mineurs à travers le monde et à fournir les outils logistiques permettant de les combler.
Cette ONG a notamment financé le développement du "GMCNgine" au bénéfice des ONG de son réseau. Le "GMCNgine"qui est un moteur de recherche doté d'un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale permettant d'identifier les images d'enfants disparus et de traquer la pédopornographie sur internet. Il permet également d'éditer des avis de disparition ciblés dans les encarts publicitaires (Google ads) des ordinateurs connectés à moins de 100 km à la ronde d'un lieu de disparition.
Étant membre de ce réseau international, nous sommes les seuls en Suisse à disposer de cet outil recourant aux dernières technologies.
SSI
Le Service Social International soutient les enfants séparés de leur famille à la suite d'une migration ou d'un déplacement transfrontalier.
Réunissant des ONG et des partenaires interconnectés de plus de 100 pays, le SSI œuvre pour rétablir les liens au sein de familles séparées, en leur offrant une assistance sociojuridique et psychologique.
Cette organisation est également active dans les domaines de la protection et du droit de l’enfant, du développement des politiques pour l’enfance et de la recherche.
Missing Children Switzerland et le SSI collaborent régulièrement lors de situations d'enlèvements parentaux transfrontaliers.
The Swiss Network for the Rights of the Child
The Swiss Network for the Rights of the Child is an association of Swiss non-governmental organizations,
The Swiss Network for the Rights of the Child is an association of Swiss non-governmental organizations committed to the recognition and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Switzerland. The main task of the network is to report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which regularly reviews progress and obstacles to the implementation of children's rights in Switzerland.
As an independent observer in the field of the disappearance of minors, we relay our observations to the Swiss Children's Rights Network.
See P 7. LOIPR
Public partners
Cantonal police
Collaboration in the event of missing minors. The police guide parents to us for professional emotional care and to support their search endeavours.
In the event of disappearances, it is crucial to establish contact with the inspectors in charge of the investigation, in order to facilitate and consolidate the work of caring for families. It would be desirable for police to inform parents that they can receive support via the hotline. Like the police, we must be in the right place at the right time to accomplish our mission.
All the police forces in French-speaking Switzerland have welcomed this collaboration for the benefit of parents and children in distress, with the exception of the Canton of Geneva.
Our communication should currently be passed on by more than 1,500 police officers in the French-speaking region.
FDFA
The Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA
The Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA is mobilised when a child is illegally moved by one of the parents to a country that has not signed the Hague Convention.
We are involved in the process of the child's return, insofar as the parent has requested our expertise and support.
FOJ
The Federal Office of Justice
The Federal Office of Justice intervenes in cases of parental abduction to a country that is a signatory to the Hague Convention. We collaborate with them so that the necessary steps for the return of the children are taken.
