Preventing abuse
Preventing the commission of abuse is the best way to protect children online.
Multiple techniques are needed to help ensure children are protected from contact, grooming, sexual abuse and other forms of exploitation online.
These include deterring and engaging with potential offenders, especially those who are younger and may be prevented from becoming offenders. Online tools, helplines and other resources are available to enable this engagement.
Careful risk assessments of technologies and platforms can also help to prevent abuse from occurring, together with shared access to international databases of abuse material and criminal records, hotlines and online cybertip services.
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Council of Europe’s Lanzarote Committee Monitoring Report
Publisher: Council of Europe’s Lanzarote Committee (Report)
The report highlights ways to improve national legal frameworks, preventative actions, investigations and prosecutions of cases of child sexual exploitation and abuse online.
Many abusers contact children online – we need to stop this now
Publisher: Protect Children (Blog)
This blog post explores the findings of the new research by Protect Children on how, after viewing child sexual abuse material, many users directly contact children online.
Global Boys Initiative
Publisher: ECPAT International (Report)
As the programmatic responses to identify and meet the particular needs of boys are scarce, ECPAT International launched the Global Initiative to explore the sexual exploitation of boys.
Child sexual exploitation and abuse online: Survivors’ Perspectives
Publisher: ECPAT International, WeProtect Global Alliance (Report)
WeProtect Global Alliance, in partnership with ECPAT International and six of its network member organisations, published a global report amplifying the voices of survivors of child sexual abuse online.
CSAM Users in the Dark Web: Protecting Children Through Prevention
Publisher: Protect Children (Report)
This report reveals unprecedented findings from Protect Children’s surveys in the dark web on CSAM users. This new information is invaluable in enhancing global child protection efforts.
Action to End Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Publisher: Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, UNICEF (Tool)
This course is designed to increase awareness and knowledge about child sexual exploitation and abuse, including abuse facilitated by technology, and promote evidence-based strategies and actions for prevention and response.
Child sexual exploitation and abuse online: Frontline Workers’ Perspectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Publisher: ECPAT International, WeProtect Global Alliance (Report)
Country report for Bosnia and Herzegovina 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…
Global Threat Assessment 2021
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Report)
An overview of the scale and complexity of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, and what’s being done to tackle it worldwide.
Global Threat Assessment 2021
Global view of child sexual exploitation and abuse online: technology, victims & offenders
A global race to stop and prevent abuse online
Publisher: eSafety Commissioner (Blog)
Australia’s eSafety Commission Julie Inman Grant explains the additional powers given to her office in this new legislation and how they have worked with industry to develop Safety by Design…