Society & culture

Zoé Colpaert, International Development Officer for the Internet Watch Foundation, shares her experience of setting up reporting portals for child sexual abuse material around the world and explains the necessary…

Stop and prevent the abuse and sexual exploitation of minors on the Internet with our awareness-raising campaign, because the online protection of children and adolescents is a responsibility for everyone.

A debate has been raging in Europe over what takes precedence: privacy or child protection. In September 2020 we were called by a member of the European Parliament who asked…

This Handbook is for people who work with children in a professional capacity in schools and other education settings, hospitals and other health care settings, alternative care settings, child protection…

NCMEC compared EU-related CyberTipline reports submitted by technology companies three weeks before and three weeks after the ePrivacy directive going into effect. Reports concerning child sexual exploitation in the EU…

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…

Our work to date has helped us understand how to protect kids from online sexual exploitation, but with SG-CSAM a new question arose: Is every child in every image experiencing…

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…

This briefing paper brings together and assesses the currently available material on the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on online child sexual exploitation.