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News -   The new report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), published at the start of March, has found that institutions often prioritise their reputation over the protection of children from sexual abuse. The inquiry panel examined issues at 13…
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News - Finding out your child is being criminally or sexually exploited can be shocking and upsetting. Many young people don't disclose what has happened to them due to fear, shame and even lack of awareness that they are being exploited.  Healthy parent-child relationships…
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Online library - The European Union and the Council of Europe have issued a joint handbook for professionals, guiding them on how to approach with and interview child victims of violence, exploitation and trafficking, when prosecuting felonies. The child victims and/or witnesses’…
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Online library - On the 29th of December, the Commission on Young Lives published the report 'Out of Harm's Way: A new care system to protect vulnerable teenagers at risk of exploitation and crime', which points out that the…
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Multimedia - Children are sometimes exploited during elections for political purposes, which is a violation of their rights. Politicians may play on the emotions of voters by involving children in events or visiting schools. It is quite unclear whether these actions are real…
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Online library - Lighthouse - the UK’s first ‘Child House’ to support children who have been victims of sexual abuse and exploitation in London, has released an interesting interactive tool. The main purpose of this tool is to provide information and advice to those who want and…
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News - New hub, that is strongly linked to and highly cooperational with local authorities and organisations is launched in the city of Bradford. As Bradford is a relatively young city with a quarter of its population under the age of 25, and is also a sanctuary for many…
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News - According to the former children’s commissioner, with school reopening soon, ministers are not prepared to face the rise in child exploitation. Anne Longfield said that tens of thousands more children could be exploited by gangs and criminals because the state had failed to…
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News - Researchers claim that 1 in 5 children’s apps available on Google Play don’t support COPPA rules. COPPA (in 1998, Congress enacted the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), enforces a number of requirements on operators of websites or online services that are aimed at…
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News - Together with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), Childline has developed a tool for removing nude photos of children and young people from online spaces - Report Remove tool. Children and young people can report their photo they find and after reviewing the application by…
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News - A joint report of International Labour Organization and UN children’s agency shows that child labour has risen for the first time in the last two decades and the coronavirus crisis threatens to push millions of children into work. The percentage of children who are forced…
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News - A new training package for justice systems has been developed by The Council of Europe Project to End Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse @ Europe with the aim of improving their capacities to stand up against OCSEA. The new training package was worked out by Council…
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News - The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers is encouraging member states to strengthen safety measures in children's data protection. This particularly applies to medical and educational data during the pandemic. The Committee has emphasized that while…
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News - The Deputy Executive Director of Programmes at ECPAT International, an organization that fights commercial sexual exploitation of children, explains 5 steps to protect children from the increase of online sexual abuse and exploitation that has occured…
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Multimedia - The International Labour Organisation is dedicating the year 2021 to the elimination of child labour, as still today 152 million children around the world are affected by it. "Child labour is defined by international standards as work…
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News - School closures due to the pandemic give an opportunity for human traffickers targeting children. One-third of found trafficking victims are children - from 2016 to 2018 the number of reported cases increased from 24,000 to 49,000. The risk is higher in poorer countries,…
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News - Facebook has admitted to a House of Commons committee that plans to implement end-to-end encryption on all messaging products will have a negative impact on the exploitation of some British children…
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News - Even though there were almost a hundred million less working children reported in 2016 compared to 2000, one-in-ten children still suffer in illegal child labour. Africa is in the first place, counting around 72 million child labourers, followed by the…
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News - New government statistics about killed and injured children during lockdown between April and September 2020 show the following statistics: 285 serious incidents; 119 deaths, 153 serious harms, 13 other; 35.8% of…
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News - Exit News suggested that EU Member States and the UK should consider rehabilitating Albanian survivors of human trafficking in the country of rescue instead of sending back them to Albania, where they face many risks upon their return, like stigmatization, re-…
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News - COVID lockdown in the world has resulted in disturbing changes in child labor, exploitation, early marriages and abuse reports. As the education system had to implement an online schooling due to the pandemic, children, especially from disadvantaged families, were forced to…
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News - CHILD-FOCUSED non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa, published a study on traditional African childhoods and how they differ from the UNCRC-based child rights vision. The study…
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News - The Guardian reports on the possible dangerous situations caused by end-to-end encryption, a technology that makes it impossible to keep track of content sharing and increasing potential cases of abuse, because the shared content would only be available for those…
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Online library - This report by UNICEF and End Violence Against Children aims to support the further work of UNICEF, partner organizations, researchers, experts, and policymakers in preventing and responding to sexual abuse and exploitation of children, taking into account…
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News - Online privacy protections have gone through a major reform that came into force on December 20 in the European Union. However, the new law does not only affect the EU but the rest of the world as well, including children, who from now on are more easily exposed to online…
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Webinar - About the webinar: This webinar will share the experience of the UK in relation to identifying child victims of trafficking, safeguarding children and trying to disrupt child trafficking. We will outline our trafficking, modern slavery and exploitation…
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News - Each year on or around 18 November, Europe raises awareness on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. The Council of Europe has held a webinar on how risks associated with sexual images and videos self-generated by…
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Online library - InCtrl is a service designed by NSPCC staff, that aims to help protect children and young people from technology-assisted child sexual abuse (TA-CSA). Between January 2019 and February 2020, InCtrl was piloted as a manualized, eight-session, face-…
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Multimedia - Every second young person considers it is natural to have sex "because all friends already have sex", according to data from the study on assessing young people's attitudes towards sexual abuse, human trafficking and sexual and commercial exploitation, carried…
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News - The first national study of child exploitation in Scotland – „Sexual exploitation of children involved in the children’s hearings system” – calls for further efforts to increase communities’ and agencies’ awareness as cases are identified in 27 of 32 local authorities.…