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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 - Scotland: Report published by the Children’s and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ), examining the childhoods of children who display Harmful Sexual Behavior (HSB). The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice Funded by the Scottish…
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News - Trust is one of the most important base of all of our relationships with others however some people can take advantage of us. Online grooming is the process of exploiting insecurities and trust of children over the internet. These predators usually trick children in video-…
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News - Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) annual report shows that 11-13 year old girls are increasingly at risk of grooming and coercion at the hands of online predators. A new campaign is warning teenage girls and their parents about the dangers of being groomed online by sexual…
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News - The Online Safety Bill was published by the UK Government last week. The goal of the Bill is to put online harmful practices to an end. There are fears sexual behaviour could be „normalised” for children, unless prevent them accessing pornography online. The Part 3 of the…
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News - Reuters published that due to a new, planned law the social media companies would be fined up to 10% of turnover or 18 million pounds if they do not eradicate the discovered online abuses, such as hate crimes, harassment, the senior managers could also face criminal action…
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Multimedia - In February 2021, the Anti-Bullying Alliance conducted an online survey with 400 respondents (children, parents and school staff) about bullying and relationships with friends during this period of the lockdown when some children are in school but most taking part…
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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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Online library - The Global Strategic Response framework is designed to help set objectives and provide a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate child sexual exploitation and abuse online. This document frames the response by thematic area, underpinned by cross-…
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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 - How can young people recognize content that is reliable and content that is misleading online? This research shines light on how dealing with misleading content has become a daily part of the online experience for many young people.…
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Multimedia - Based on research conducted with children and young people aged 13 to 17, Childnet International has designed a tool for educators, moderators and facilitators of high school students. This tool should provide support and enable conversations that are primarily…
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Webinar - Recordings are available here. About the conference "If we learn all our lives that violence is okay, by the age of 20 [we] will not see a problem [with] that." (Young participant from Croatia) Social norms influencing violence in schools, its forms and…
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Webinar - About the webinar: Young people who are vulnerable offline experience the online world as both a refuge and a risk. They turn to it as an escape, for support and connection to others. It opens up new possibilities, and offers a space in which they can be…
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Online library - Participating in risky online behaviours could result in children being exposed to upsetting or distressing content online and, potentially, serious forms of victimisation such as sexual harassment. This report is based on data from the Growing up…
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Multimedia - The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has adopted the General comment 25 on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment. The document aims to: Support governments on finding ways to keep children safe online; Raise awareness on the risks…
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News - The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has lodged with the European Commission and the bloc’s network of consumer protection authorities a complaint against the video-sharing site, while consumer organisations in 15 countries have alerted their national authorities and…
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News - In order to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse of children in the digital environment, and to provide information and tools for the safe and responsible use of information and communication technologies, the Center for Safe Internet (CSI) was established in Bosnia and…
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News - Because of the Covid-19, being online has become the only way to socialize and children are shrunk to their homes and screens. Technology has granted us so many opportunities to learn and connect although the disadvantages are also equally present. It may expose…
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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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Event - According to The Digital Marketing Institute, The NSPCC and Ofcom (UK) reports 6 in 10 teens trust influencers more than traditional celebrities and more than 74% of 8–15-year-olds using YouTube with 40% of their YouTube content deriving from bloggers. As…
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News - Baroness Beeban Kidron, the chair and founder of 5Rights Foundation, in her speech at the Digital Age 2021 conference raised major concerns about the online protection of children. The culture of the internet requires kids to reveal increasingly more…
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News - The ongoing danger of children being exposed to online perpetrators has increased during COVID-related lockdowns. Children who spend more time on the internet and lack supervision are more likely to become victims, says Catherine De Bolle,…
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News - The European Commission issued a new directive called the e-Privacy Directive, which prohibits online communications services (such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.) to track private messages of people while using their messaging services in European Union countries.…
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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 - In March 2020 the UK’s Children’s Commissioner polled 2,003 children aged 8-17 on their use of messaging platforms in an effort to understand the risks that these services may pose to both children and teenagers. The briefing explores the full range of online…
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News - The ECPAT International reports on the issue of “online circulation of sexually explicit images and videos taken by children” on the occasion of the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse on 18 November.…
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News - For the occasion of End Child Sex Abuse Day Marija Pejcinovic Buric Secretary-General from Council of Europe has spoken against the phenomenon of “sexy selfies” posted by children. She highlights the need to
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News - Social media has become an indispensable part of our lives that helps us to feel connected with the world. Yet, social media has also resulted in several problems as its users are becoming increasingly addicted. According to Rebecca Lendl,…
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Online library - Bullying used to happen mostly in schools – now it can follow children anywhere they go. According to the Office for National Statistics’ latest report on online bullying based on a Crime Survey for England and Wales, around one in five children aged 10 to 15 years…