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Online library - The SEREDA project (Sexual and Gender Based Violence against Refugees from Displacement to Arrival - SEREDA) is a research initiative led by the University of Birmingham's Professor Jenny Phillimore and the past three years it has been focused on…
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News - UN human rights expert’s Mama Fatima Singhateh, discusses the current situation of child protection in Montenegro, and stresses the need to prevent and effectively respond to the sale and sexual exploitation of children in Montenegro.
While “encouraged by the Government's…
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News - Several children suffered serious physical abuse, saxual exploitation and even rape in a Bradford district care home (UK), research found out.
The investigation has been ongoing since 2001, and have found 5 exact cases when adolescent children were exposed to serious abuse…
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News - Hintalovon Child Rights Foundation published a summary of the most important Hungarian child rights events of 2020. Exclusion, exploitation, and epidemic – these were the most significant child rights issues last year.
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In some cases, legislation…
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Online library - The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) published an assessment of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the Western Balkans. This is the first regional assessment of its kind looking at both the vulnerabilities of…
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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 - 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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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 - 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 - 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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News - On 12 November 2020, Terre des hommes Foundation Mission in Albania organized an online training on "Psychological Reactions of Victims of Trafficking in Persons and its Effect on Investigation and Prosecution of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons".
Twenty…
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News - Human trafficking is a serious and worrying issue, especially for women and girls, who comprise more than 70% of traffic victims due to sexual exploitation. A link was recently found between human trafficking and online abuse; around 40% of traffic…
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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.…
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Online library - “Beyond physical violence, Indigenous women and girls also experience violence in the form of racism, discrimination, and a lack of sovereignty over their children, self and nations, as well as through misrepresentations in literature, education, and research,”…
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News - During the conflicts in Southern and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, thousands of women, girls, and children have been raped and sexually assaulted. Most of the victims have never received any form of justice, experts say.
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination…
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News - According to an Online Harms Survey, the majority of youth workers don’t feel confident in supporting young people due to insufficient knowledge; they cannot support them through proper prevention programmes as they don’t have…
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News - This year, World Day Against Trafficking in Persons - 30 July - celebrates the work of first responders to human trafficking – those engaged in identifying, supporting, counselling and seeking justice for victims of trafficking – as the importance of…
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News - 27% of human trafficking victims are children, says Save the Children in a new article that aims to clear up myths on this sensitive issue which exists in every country in the world. According to the United Nations,…
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News - The situation of unaccompanied child refugees arriving to Greece through its land borders has already been much worse than those arriving through the sea – and it has worsened significantly with the coronavirus lockdown.
Prior to the 2015-2016 surge in…
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News - In Sarajevo, in the week from June 8 to June 11, organized by the Faculty of Criminology, Criminology and Security Studies, Save the Children, UNICEF and the International Solidarity Forum - EMMAUS, as part of the EVAC (end violence against the children) project…
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Multimedia - NSPCC Learning has published a new learning tool on how Gillick competence and Fraser guidelines in order to help professionals working with children decide when to take into account a child's wish, but also keep them safe. The two terms derive from a legal case from…
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Webinar - Publisher: Safeguarding Resource & Support Hub
This webinar explores what the global Covid-19 pandemic means for Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment safeguarding, how prevention and response measures, including investigations, need to adapt to address the…
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Online library - Briefing Paper Number 1: Potential Impediments to the recognition of the sexual exploitation of young males under 18 years
Dr Jacqueline Montgomery-Devlin has published the first of three briefing papers that focuses on the child sexual…
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Online library - The Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) supports social workers and other organisations in building 'their understanding and confidence to identify and respond to child sexual abuse' (CSA). To this end, the CSA Centre designed a training…
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News - Good news; the Armenian National Assembly has ratified the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse.
Daniel Holtgen, Spokesperson of the Council of Europe (CoE), congratulated Armenia, which is now the 47th…
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News - While most people are trying to solve the problems COVID-19 has caused all over the world, criminals are taking advantage of the situation by putting children at increased risk of sexual abuse and exploitation.
During…
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News - The Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) report highlights the identification of child victims of trafficking and the assistance measures which are provided to them as the two biggest gaps in the implementation of the Council of…
