[Europe] How to Prevent and Combat Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse?

Under the Council of Europe Project “End Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse @Europe (EndOCSEA@Europe)” two new reports introduces ways to respond to cybercrime against children and were published during a workshop on OCSEA which took place within the framework of the Octopus Conference “Co-operation Against Cybercrime” (20-22 November 2019).

The Baseline Mapping identifies practices as they work to reconcile multiple objectives:

• To identify, rescue and support the child victims;
• To ensure that harmful content is removed from the world wide web without delay; and
• To preserve and secure the electronic evidence to ensure that perpetrators are apprehended and prosecuted.

The Comparative Review of Mechanisms for Collective Action to Prevent and Combat Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse focuses on:

• Mechanisms to report CSAM;
• Strengthening governance structures and multi-stakeholder co-operation;

These studies build on the comprehensive framework provided by the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (Lanzarote Convention) (OCSEA), the Council of Europe Convention against Cybercrime and eight of the priorities identified in the WePROTECT Model National Response.

The EndOCSEA@Europe project supports Council of Europe member States to prevent and combat child sexual exploitation and abuse enabled by Information and communication technologies (OCSEA). This project benefit focuses on ten countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.