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
Outcomes briefing – technology, privacy and rights roundtable
Publisher: ECPAT International, WeProtect Global Alliance (Briefing)
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
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.
End-To-End Encryption: Understanding the impacts for child safety online
Publisher: NSPCC (Report)
There are diverse and often conflicting opinions on the extent to which platforms should adopt online privacy and safety features, but the overwhelming majority of participants agree that child safety…
In Our Own Words: Young People’s version of General Comment No. 25
Publisher: 5Rights Foundation (Briefing)
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child have written how children should be treated in the digital world. This shorter version was written by young people for other…
Rebooting child protection systems: 5 ways to address child sexual abuse online
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Blog)

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…
Defending the privacy of child sexual abuse victims online, in the EU and worldwide
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Blog)

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…
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.