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One of the most critical child protection issues of this century – looking back and looking ahead

Cornelius Williams, UNICEF’s Director of Child Protection, reflects on three decades of work in the child protection sector and the challenges and opportunities in combatting child sexual exploitation and abuse online.

Cornelius Williams

January 23, 2023

Taking care of your well-being as a researcher of online child sexual abuse offenders

Matt Richardson, the Director of Intelligence and Child Safety for the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII), gives some tips on how to take care of your well-being as someone researching child abuse offenders.

Matt Richardson

January 16, 2023

Transparency reports: Building trust in technology and the people behind it

In this opinion piece, Thomas Bellaïche, Senior Legal Counsel at Yubo, discusses how Yubo produced its first transparency report in the hope that it gives other tech companies a better understanding of what is involved.

Thomas Bellaïche

October 4, 2022

Self-generated sexual content involving young people demands understanding and nuance

Researchers Dr Mark Kavenagh from Evident and Julia Durska reflect on a series of questions about self-generated sexual content involving young people.

Dr Mark Kavenagh and Julia Durska Evident

September 1, 2022

Protecting tomorrow’s children in the AI digital revolution

Baroness Joanna Shields reflects on the 2022 Global Summit to Turn the Tide on Child Sexual Abuse Online and how the world is being changed by the metaverse, artificial intelligence and neurotechnology.

Joanna Shields WeProtect Global Alliance Management board member and founder of WePROTECT

August 11, 2022

Shaping a safer digital world for children together

A blog post on the Declaration and the Regional Plan of Action on the Protection of Children from all Forms of Online Exploitation and Abuse in ASEAN.

WeProtect Global Alliance ASEAN UNICEF EAPRO ECPAT

July 20, 2022

Online safety laws can help to turn the tide against child sexual abuse online

Chloe Setter, Head of Advocacy, Policy & Research at WeProtect Global Alliance, reflects on how online safety legislation can play a key role in protecting children online.

Chloe Setter Head of Policy, WeProtect Global Alliance

May 4, 2022

The case for collaboration: The new Semantics 21 GAD solution

Semantics 21 has launched a new database to help Identify child sexual abuse material and keep children safe online.

Tom Oldroyd

April 28, 2022

Application 3018: an app to report harmful content online and protect children

On 8 February 2022, Safer Internet Day, e-Enfance - a French NGO fighting against children’s bullying and online harassment - launched a nationwide app, Application 3018, to facilitate the reporting of cyber harassment.

Tremau Louis-Victor de Franssu, Toshali Sengupta

April 14, 2022

Many abusers contact children online – we need to stop this now

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.

Protect Children

March 1, 2022

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