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GOV.UK

Coronavirus (COVID-19): support for parents and carers to keep children safe online

This guidance by the UK Government outlines resources to help keep children safe from different risks online and where to go to receive support and advice.

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WeProtect Global Alliance

Impact of COVID-19 on child sexual exploitation and abuse online

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

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Keeping Children Safe

Keeping Children Safe Online: a guide for organisations

This guide is based on a model that helps organisations plan their approach to the use of social media. It also signposts sources of further support: advice, training and information.

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Internet Watch Foundation

IWF 2019 Annual Report: Zero Tolerance

Our Annual Report for 2019 highlights concerning trends around the increase of child sexual abuse imagery hosted in Europe.

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Five-Country Ministerial

Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

On 5 March 2020 a set of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse was launched in Washington DC.  These principles were developed by the Five Country…

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ZiuZ

ICCAM (pronounce: I see CAM – Child Abuse Material)

As technology partner of INHOPE, this partnership resulted in the development of ICCAM (pronounce: I see CAM – Child Abuse Material): a tool for crawling websites for illegal content. The…

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Bark

The Smart Way to Keep Kids Safer Online

Bark’s affordable, award-winning dashboard proactively monitors text messages, YouTube, emails, and 30+ different social networks for potential safety concerns, so busy parents can save time and gain peace of mind.

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NSPCC

Talking to your child about online safety

Advice on how to start the conversation and get support if you’re worried.

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Lucy Faithfull Foundation

Eradicating Child Sexual Abuse (ECSA) Toolkit

This toolkit aims to help develop your understanding of child sexual abuse, and strategies to help its prevention.

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Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

Disrupting Harm

Disrupting Harm is a large-scale research project with multiple data collection components that aims to better understand how digital technology facilitates the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents,…

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Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

Child Online Safety

We invest in innovative solutions that can be scaled; generate new knowledge and share learning; bring online child sexual exploitation and abuse to the forefront of high-level conversations; convene and…

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Marie Collins Foundation

GPN: a network by professionals, for professionals responding to online child sexual abuse

The GPN platform is a global online community of child protection practitioners, policy makers and academics eager to share the very latest research.

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Google

Fighting child sexual abuse online

Google is committed to fighting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online and preventing our platforms from being used to spread this kind of content.

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Thorn

Thorn: Our work is guided by three principles

Accelerate victim identification; Equip platforms; Empower the public

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ECPAT International

Guidelines for ethical research on sexual exploitation involving children

This document provides guidance for negotiating these ethical questions for a range of people engaged in field research (from lead researchers to data collectors).

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African Child Policy Forum, OAK Foundation

Sexual Exploitation of Children in Africa – A Silent Emergency

Child sexual exploitation has never been and will never be an inevitablehuman condition. It is preventable and can and should be eliminated. Governments, civil society organisations and other relevant bodies…

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Broadband Coalition for Sustainable Development, International Telecommunications Union, UNESCO

Child Online Safety: Minimizing the Risk of Violence, Abuse and Exploitation Online

Affordable, reliable connectivity is now coming to more countries than ever. But too often, children cannot realize these opportunities, because the Internet is also a place, in which the vulnerable…

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Europol

Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2019

This annual assessment of the cybercrime threat landscape highlights the persistence and tenacity of a number of key threats. In all areas, we see how most of the main threats…

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SafeToNet Foundation

White Paper: From Cabbages to Smartphones

An exploration into safeguarding children online.

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WeProtect Global Alliance

Global Strategic Response

One-page overview across policy, criminal justice, victim support, technology, society and research. Download WeProtectGA-Global-Strategic-Response-EN Français | Español | Português | العربية

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NCMEC

Captured on Film: Survivors of Child Sex Abuse Material are stuck in a unique cycle of trauma

This white paper will be a living document, updated with new insights to help identify gaps in treatment and support for survivors of child sexual abuse material beginning with mental…

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Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, UNICEF, WeProtect Global Alliance

Working examples of WPGA Model National Response – capabilities and implementation

As an initiative interested in hearing from our membership base, we surveyed our WePROTECT Global Alliance country members at the end of 2017 to learn about their progress towards implementing…

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Phoenix 11

Phoenix 11 – Advocacy Impact Statement

We are the Phoenix 11. Sexually abused as children, reduced to child sex abuse images, and stripped of our dignity and humanity, we have risen together as powerful young women…

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Internet Watch Foundation

Trends in Online Child Sexual Exploitation: Examining the Distribution of Captures of Live-streamed Child Sexual Abuse

This study aimed to examine characteristics of captures of live-streamed child sexual abuse in distribution online.

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International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children

Child Sexual Abuse Material: Model Legislation & Global Review

Now in its 9th Edition, the report includes 196 countries and has become a globally-utilized tool for policymakers, law enforcement agencies, child protection experts and organizations, industry partners, and others.

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INTERPOL

Victim identification involves the detailed analysis of images and videos to locate and rescue child sexual abuse victims

Online child sexual abuse is one of the rare crime areas where police officers start with the evidence and work their way back to the crime scene.

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YouTube

YouTube CSAI Match

CSAI Match is YouTube’s proprietary technology for combating CSAI (Child Sexual Abuse Imagery) content online. This technology allows us to identify known CSAI content in a sea of innocent content.

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Netclean

The NetClean Report 2018

Insights on child sexual abuse crime from nearly 300 police officers around the world, and experiences from businesses and organisations that detect child sexual abuse material in their IT environment.

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International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children

Online Child Protection Combatting Child Sexual Abuse Material on the Internet

In particular, the report presents a range of legal measures which Commonwealth Member States might consider adopting and it sets them in the context of wider initiatives designed to make…

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Save the Children

Child Protectionin Emergencies: Priorities, Principles and Practices

This document details both Save the Children’s current perspective on the main protection dangers that children face in an emergency and how to address them.

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Canadian Centre for Child Protection

Survivors’ Survey: Full Report 2017

The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of the data that has been received and analyzed to date. Given the importance of the issues raised by the…

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Microsoft

PhotoDNA

In 2009, Microsoft partnered with Dartmouth College to develop PhotoDNA, a technology that aids in finding and removing known images of child exploitation.

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NCMEC

The Online Enticement of Children:An In-Depth Analysis of CyberTipline Reports

he CyberTipline uniquely positions NCMEC to spot patterns andtrends in child sexual exploitation, including the “online enticement” of children.

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World Health Organization

INSPIRE: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children

INSPIRE is a technical package for everyone committed to preventing and responding to violence against children and adolescents – from government to grassroots, and from civil society to the private…

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Family Online Safety Institute

FOSI GRID

GRID captures the challenges and responses to online safety issues around the world.

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NCMEC

Trends identified in CyberTipline sextortion reports

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline receives reports regarding childsexual exploitation, including“sextortion”.

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WeProtect Global Alliance

Model National Response Framework

The Model National Response is a framework focused on helping countries to build their response to online child sexual exploitation. It acknowledges that this cannot be addressed in isolation and…

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NCMEC

Global Research Project: A Global Landscape of Hotlines Combating Child Sexual Abuse Material on the Internet and an Assessment of Shared Challenges

By conducting this research, NCMEC hopes to create a better understanding of the current global response to CSAM, the challenges hotlines encounter and most specifically, how community focused technology advances…

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Council of Europe

Council of Europe Convention on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (Lanzarote Convention)

The Lanzarote Convention requires States to offer a holistic response to sexual violence against children, through the “4 Ps approach”: Prevention, Protection, Prosecution and Promotion of national and international cooperation.