Publications produced and commissioned by WeProtect Global Alliance, including frameworks, reports and briefing papers:
Frameworks
Frameworks to help organise the response to child sexual exploitation and abuse at national and global levels.
Model National Response
Guidance & support to countries and organisations to help build response to child sexual exploitation and abuse online.
- See dedicated Model National Response page
- Download the English version
- Other languages: Français | Español | العربية
Implementing the Model National Response
Global Strategic Response
One-page overview across policy, criminal justice, victim support, technology, society and research
- Download the English version
- Français | Español | Português | العربية
Implementing the Global Strategic Response
Reports
Our reports inform on the global threats and the collective response to child sexual abuse online.
Global Threat Assessment 2021
Global view of child sexual exploitation and abuse online: technology, victims & offenders
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- Français | Español | Português | العربية
Child exposure to online sexual harms survey
A global study of 18-20 year olds in 54 countries worldwide to find out more about their experiences of online sexual harms, conducted by ECONOMIST IMPACT
- Download the English version
- Access the dedicated report page
Child sexual exploitation and abuse online: Survivors’ Perspectives
In partnership with ECPAT International and six of its network member organisations, research conducted to amplify the voices of survivors of child sexual abuse online
- Download the English version
- Download the Spanish version
- Access the dedicated report page
Survey of technology companies
A survey of industry members conducted in partnership with the Tech Coalition to understand the scope of activities by technology companies to combat the issue of child sexual abuse online
- Download the English version
- Access the dedicated report page
How to talk about child sexual abuse in the digital world
A FrameWorks UK brief prepared for WeProtect Global Alliance
How we talk about child sexual exploitation and abuse online matters. Our communications can make the difference between salience and dismissal, between hope and fatalism, between collective action and stepping back.
- Download the English version
- Access the dedicated report page
Briefing papers
Briefing Paper – Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Online: Survivors’ Perspectives in Colombia
Briefing paper for Colombia summarising findings from the six-country study of child sexual exploitation and abuse online. This project was a collaboration between ECPAT International and WeProtect Global Alliance.
Briefing Paper – Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Online: Survivors’ Perspectives in Peru
Briefing paper for Peru summarising findings from the six-country study of child sexual exploitation and abuse online. This project was a collaboration between ECPAT International and WeProtect Global Alliance.
Briefing paper – Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Online: Survivors’ Perspectives in Mexico
Briefing paper for Mexico summarising findings from the six-country study of child sexual exploitation and abuse online. This project was a collaboration between ECPAT International and WeProtect Global Alliance.
Briefing Paper – Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Online: Survivors’ Perspectives in Moldova
Briefing paper for Moldova summarising findings from the six-country study of child sexual exploitation and abuse online. This project was a collaboration between ECPAT International and WeProtect Global Alliance.
Briefing Paper – Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Online: Survivors’ Perspectives in Albania
Briefing paper for Albania summarising findings from the six-country study of child sexual exploitation and abuse online. This project was a collaboration between ECPAT International and WeProtect Global Alliance to conduct primary research and amplify the perspectives of survivors. Recommendations drawn from the survivors conversations are emphasised.
Framing child sexual abuse and exploitation online as a form of human trafficking: opportunities, challenges, and implications
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 explore the opportunities, challenges, and implications of framing some online exploitation crimes as a form of trafficking.
Outcomes briefing – technology, privacy and rights roundtable

This outcomes briefing records the outcomes from the roundtable meeting: issue context, key challenges, potential solutions and mapping the way forward.
The sexual exploitation and abuse of deaf and disabled children online

This intelligence briefing acts as a situational analysis of current perspectives and evidence on the sexual exploitation and abuse of children with disabilities online.
Briefing on the future of digital tools to detect child sexual exploitation and abuse online in Europe

On 21 December 2020, the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) came into force in the European Union (EU), which provides an expanded definition of ‘electronic communications services’ in the already existing 2002 Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (ePrivacy Directive).
European Electronic Communications Code briefing

Technology tools that protect children from online child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSEA) risk being outlawed in European Union (EU) member states from 20th December this year, unless an agreement can be reached by three key EU institutions.
Impact of COVID-19 on child sexual exploitation and abuse online

This briefing paper brings together and assesses the currently available material on the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on online child sexual exploitation.