Action Innocence is a private foundation recognized as being of public utility by Order of the State Council of the Canton of Geneva.

It was created in Geneva in 1999 by Valérie Wertheimer following a trip to Thailand in 1997, during which she was confronted with a rapidly expanding traffic facilitated by the advent of the Internet: the possibility for tourists to book holidays online in order to satisfy their sexual perversion with children.

The Foundation's primary vocation was to point out the emerging excesses of the Internet and to denounce what was being prepared in terms of pedocriminality. As part of its AntiPedoFiles program, Action Innocence has, until 2018, developed and provided free of charge to the police services concerned a tracking software that has enabled the arrest of thousands of individuals consuming child pornography.

One of the Foundation's first actions was to develop a prevention program for children to inform them of the risks associated with the Internet, such as: confrontation with shocking and illegal images, dissemination of personal information, bad encounters, sexting, cyberbullying and cyberradiction.

The program has expanded and, to date, it is aimed not only at children but also at adolescents, people with special needs, parents and professionals in education, health and social work.

In addition to its field actions, Action Innocence conducts extensive prevention campaigns in the media to raise awareness among the general public.