Policy & legislation
A combination of policy, rules and legislation is needed to help protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse online, and to help make the internet a safe space for them to explore.
See what the Alliance is doing on: Policy & legislation
How Europe’s privacy laws are failing victims of sexual abuse
Publisher: Apolitical (Media)
The proliferation of nonconsensual pornography has prompted countries to act unilaterally.
Briefing on the future of digital tools to detect child sexual exploitation and abuse online in Europe
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Briefing)
On 21 December 2020, the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) came into force in the European Union (EU), which provides an expanded definition of ‘electronic communications services’ in the already…
Guidelines for Policy-makers on Child Online Protection
Publisher: International Telecommunications Union (Report)
The COP Guidelines for policy-makers offer national governments and policy-makers a user-friendly and flexible framework that supports the development of targeted and effective measures for child online protection at the national level.
Guidelines for industry on Child Online Protection
Publisher: International Telecommunications Union (Report)
The COP Guidelines for industry aim at establishing the foundation for safer and more secure use of Internet-based services and associated technologies for today’s children and future generations.
Governments
Governments create and implement the legal environment to prevent and respond to child sexual exploitation and abuse
European Electronic Communications Code briefing
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Briefing)
Technology tools that protect children from online child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSEA) risk being outlawed in European Union (EU) member states from 20th December this year, unless an agreement…
Digital Rights are Human Rights
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Blog)
The drafters of Article 4 – the right not to be held in slavery or servitude – could not have foreseen the role of future technology in the abuse of…
Case study: what the Philippines is doing to end online child abuse
Publisher: Apolitical (Blog)
To coordinate the interventions of all stakeholders in addressing all forms of abuse, neglect and exploitation of children, the Philippine Government formed the Committee for the Special Protection of Children…
Effecting change through collaboration
Publisher: Apolitical (Blog)
As a pioneer member of our regional task force created in 2011, I was able to participate in several case build-up investigations involving human trafficking and online sexual exploitation of…
European Union to ban digital tools uncovering millions of images and videos of child sexual abuse online
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Press release)
Tools that are protecting children from online child sexual abuse will be outlawed in December, unless an agreement can be reached by three key EU institutions. Currently, a number of…