Collaboration
Coordinated action between different sectors, industries and countries is needed to prevent child sexual exploitation and abuse online, and safeguard children.
Online-facilitated exploitation and abuse crosses borders with ease; an aligned, international response is vital.
Information-sharing and collaborative targeting enables better decisions and more efficient prevention, early intervention and effective response. Open collaboration from the outset helps to improve the chances of success in preventing abuse and protecting children.
This includes shared access to international databases, particularly those regarding child sexual abuse material and offender targeting methodologies; formal data-sharing frameworks; high value collective targeting; and criminal records databases.
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Guidance for implementing the Global Strategic Response
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Tool)
Guidance for practitioners and decision-makers across the globe to reach the outcomes outlined in the Alliance’s Global Strategic Response.
Working together against sexual abuse online: how technology can help

As Intel joins WePROTECT Global Alliance, Data Scientist Ed Dixon reflects on the need for industry, civil society and governments to work together to tackle this urgent and borderless crime.
Turning principles into action

Following an industry-only webinar for tech members of the Alliance, Liz Thomas (Regional Digital Safety Lead in Asia-Pacific for Microsoft) gives a brief overview of some of the key questions…
A reporting solution for all

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…
Guide for tech companies considering supporting the “Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse”
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Tool)
Six industry members of the Alliance (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Roblox, Snap and Twitter) have produced this ‘by tech, for tech’ guide to operationalising the Voluntary Principles’.
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.
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…
ITU joins WePROTECT Global Alliance to help combat online child sexual abuse
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Blog)

ITU has long been committed to collaborating on a global approach to the challenge of empowering and protecting children from potential sources of online harm.
Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Publisher: Five-Country Ministerial (Tool)
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…