Developing international guidelines on consumer protection.

Enforcement agencies can use those complaints to investigate fraud. About ICPEN Consumer protection authorities from around the world working together to combat fraudulent, deceptive and unfair trading practices.

Welcome to the website of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) – an organisation composed of consumer protection authorities from over 65 countries.

CI was founded as the International Organisation of Consumers Unions (IOCU) in 1960 and by the early 21st century had grown to include more than 200 member The FTC also supports econsumer.gov, a project sponsored by the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network ICPEN and consumer agencies in more than 35 countries. Consumers can use econsumer.gov to report cross-border complaints. US President John F. Kennedy first outlined a vision of consumer rights in a special message to Congress on 15 March 1962 (the day we now celebrate World Consumer Rights Day).Over time, the consumer movement developed this into a broader vision of our rights and needs as consumers that now guides much of our work and that of our members.

Consumers International (CI), international consortium of consumer-advocacy groups that promotes the rights and interests of consumers. COVID-19 Consumer Protection and Consumer Advocacy During the Pandemic.