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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.
Children’s Groups Express Strong Support for Apple’s New Policy
Publisher: ECPAT International (Press release)
Thank you, Apple, for showing what more is possible to protect children The publication and exchange of child sexual abuse images and videos over the internet expands and compounds the…
A welcome step: a statement of support for Apple’s plans to detect child sexual abuse images
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Press release)
“Twenty years ago, [child sexual abuse images] online were a problem; 10 years ago, an epidemic. Now, the crisis is at breaking point.” New York Times, 2019[1] When in August…
Framing child sexual abuse and exploitation online as a form of human trafficking: opportunities, challenges, and implications
Publisher: International Justice Mission, WeProtect Global Alliance (Briefing)
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…
How to talk about child sexual abuse in the digital world
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Report)
A FrameWorks UK strategic brief outlines challenges for communicating about child sexual exploitation and abuse online and offers preliminary recommendations.
Supporting recovery from childhood abuse
Publisher: NAPAC (Tool)
A series of seven booklets produced by the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC).
Awareness resources to combat child sexual abuse
Publisher: Child Rescue Coalition, UK Home Office (Media, Press release)
3 videos available in 10 different native languages. Stand alone and link together from different perspectives.
Universally agreed terminology
The use of universally-agreed terminology relating to CSEA to enable information and ideas to be communicated rapidly and legibly amongst all stakeholders.
Informed and ethical media reporting
Ensuring media reporting of CSEA is ethical, informed and balanced, and covered in a sensitive manner with victims’ dignity and rights respected at all times. This is best approached by…
Takedown procedures and reporting
Procedures to enable the timely decommissioning/removal of child sexual abuse material when a company confirms its presence on its service.