Opinions - WeProtect Global Alliance

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.

Ed Dixon Data Scientist at Intel

March 17, 2021

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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 and themes that arose at the event.

Liz Thomas Regional Digital Safety Lead in Asia-Pacific, Microsoft

March 16, 2021

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 conditions to ensure these portals a…

Zoé Colpaert International Development Officer, Internet Watch Foundation

March 11, 2021

Rebooting child protection systems: 5 ways to address child sexual abuse online

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 Child adopted General Comment 25 on the digital environment, I consider how this can …

Anna Gawn Director of Stratagem International, advisor on child protection and safeguarding (digital and offline) reform

February 10, 2021

Online safety – real world impact

Last month at a ‘together to end violence’ event discussing solutions to end child sexual abuse and exploitation the Secretary General’s Special Representative on Violence Against Children, Dr Najat Maalla M’jid said that “we must move out …

Iain Drennan Executive Director, WePROTECT Global Alliance

February 9, 2021

Defending the privacy of child sexual abuse victims online, in the EU and worldwide

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 for help.

Ernie Allen Chair, WePROTECT Global Alliance

February 2, 2021

Digital Rights are Human Rights

The drafters of Article 4 – the right not to be held in slavery or servitude – could not have foreseen the role of future technology in the abuse of generations to come.

Chloe Setter Head of Policy, WeProtect Global Alliance

December 10, 2020

Case study: what the Philippines is doing to end online child abuse

To coordinate the interventions of all stakeholders in addressing all forms of abuse, neglect and exploitation of children, the Philippine Government formed the Committee for the Special Protection of Children (CSPC).

Juvy Mae T. Navarro Social Welfare Officer, the Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development

November 18, 2020

Effecting change through collaboration

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 children (OSEC), and have first-hand experience on how pol…

Barbara Mae P. Flores Deputy Regional Director at the Regional Prosecution Office XI, under the Philippine Department of Justice

November 18, 2020

ITU joins WePROTECT Global Alliance to help combat online child sexual abuse

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.