Can Albania Implement the AMBER Alert System?

The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) in cooperation with the National Center for Missing Children in Albania is proposing the implementation of the AMBER Alert for Albania. The urgent need for the AMBER Alert system is based on the increase in the sexual exploitation of children, the high number of children at risk of trafficking, children away from home, and the growing number of missing children.

The AMBER alert system aims to protect all those missing children who are in a life-threatening situation. Today, the AMBER Alert system is being used in 32 countries in Europe and around the world. As of December 2020, over 1,030 children have been found because of the AMBER Alert system. In 2019, ICMEC hired an Albanian expert to examine the current situation in Albania regarding missing children and to provide practical solutions on how AMBER Alert can be activated and functional in Albania for every child and adolescent who needs it.

All these issues, and how Albania can become part of, and create the AMBER Alert, will be discussed at the round table meeting "Can Albania Implement the AMBER Alert System?", which will be held ONLINE on Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 2:30 pm. Attendees will include representatives from the Ministry of Interior; Ministry of Health and Social Protection; General Directorate of the Police; members of the Albanian Parliament, representatives of the Ministry of Justice, U.S. Embassy, representatives of the media and other organizations are invited to attend this meeting.

To be part of this meeting, please confirm your participation by 22 February 2021 at: crca@crca.al