Latest news, blogs and opinion pieces from the Alliance and member organisations
Survey of technology companies
A joint survey by WeProtect Global Alliance and the Technology Coalition of industry members to understand the scope of activities by technology companies to combat the issue of child sexual abuse online.
A global study of childhood experiences of 18-20 year olds conducted by Economist Impact.
Global Threat Assessment 2021
An overview of the scale and complexity of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, and what’s being done to tackle it worldwide.
Briefing Paper – Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Online: Survivors’ Perspectives in Albania
Briefing paper for Albania summarising findings from the six-country study of child sexual exploitation and abuse online. This project was a collaboration between ECPAT International and WeProtect Global Alliance to conduct primary research and amplify the perspectives of survivors. Recommendations drawn from the survivors conversations are emphasised.
Country report for Albania containing findings from the six-country study of child sexual exploitation and abuse online. This project was a collaboration between ECPAT International and WeProtect Global Alliance to conduct primary research and amplify the perspectives of survivors. Recommendations drawn from the survivors conversations are emphasised.
A welcome step: a statement of support for Apple’s plans to detect child sexual abuse images
“Twenty years ago,…
Framing child sexual abuse and exploitation online as a form of human trafficking: opportunities, challenges, and implications
A group of experts was brought together for a virtual roundtable to better understand how child trafficking for sexual purposes and child sexual exploitation and abuse online overlap; and to explore the opportunities, challenges, and implications of framing some online exploitation crimes as a form of trafficking.
How to talk about child sexual abuse in the digital world
A FrameWorks UK strategic brief outlines challenges for communicating about child sexual exploitation and abuse online and offers preliminary recommendations.
A major step forwards for WeProtect Global Alliance
New website and Protectors’ Portal offer members greater opportunities to engage and help create a digital world designed to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse.
This outcomes briefing records the outcomes from the roundtable meeting: issue context, key challenges, potential solutions and mapping the way forward.
Guidance for implementing the Global Strategic Response
Guidance for practitioners and decision-makers across the globe to reach the outcomes outlined in the Alliance’s Global Strategic Response.
The sexual exploitation and abuse of deaf and disabled children online
This intelligence briefing acts as a situational analysis of current perspectives and evidence on the sexual exploitation and abuse of children with disabilities online.
With more children than ever now engaging online, it is vital that they are both protected and enabled to engage safely. After the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted General Comment 25 on the digital environment, I consider how this can be implemented effectively for children around the world.
Online safety – real world impact
Last month at a ‘together to end violence’ event discussing solutions to end child sexual abuse and exploitation the Secretary General’s Special Representative on Violence Against Children, Dr Najat Maalla M’jid said that “we must move out of silos addressing all forms of violence against children …we can’t divide sexual violence online and offline … our vision and action must be broad and start with prevention”.
Guide for tech companies considering supporting the “Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse”
Six industry members of t…
Defending the privacy of child sexual abuse victims online, in the EU and worldwide
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 for help.
Briefing on the future of digital tools to detect child sexual exploitation and abuse online in Europe
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 existing 2002 Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (ePrivacy Directive).
European Electronic Communications Code 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 can be reached by three key EU institutions.
Digital Rights are Human Rights
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 generations to come.