#PlayYourPart – Community Participation to Drive Change for Child Safety
Young Indians' Project Masoom: building an inclusive and accessible movement across India to raise awareness and inspire action to tackle child sexual abuse.
A major step forwards for WeProtect Global Alliance
New website and Protectors’ Portal offer members greater opportunities to engage and help create a digital world designed to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse.
How to conduct ethical research on sexual exploitation involving children
Research with children demands we do the best by them. Andrea Varrella of ECPAT shares learning from the ethical review of a joint ECPAT/WePROTECT project.
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.
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.
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…
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 …
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 …
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.