The European Parliament’s compromise agreement risks leaving children in even greater danger, in a time when stronger mitigation measures are needed more urgently than ever before. Following a lengthy period of highly polarized public and political discourse and debate regarding the proposal for a Regulation to combat and prevent child sexual abuse (05/22), in which the best interests of the child have most often been neglected, and misinformation, portrayed as catastrophic “

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Protect Children's submission to the European Commission's consultation: Fighting child sexual abuse: detection, removal and reporting of illegal content online Protect Children recently submitted a response to the European Commission's consultation on the Proposal for a regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse. The proposed legislation suggests several important features, including requiring online service providers (OSPs) to conduct risk assessm

This opinion piece was originally published in Finnish in the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper 13.8.2022 and has been translated into English below. Hear Our Voice – We must listen to the voices of survivors In an opinion piece published August 8th, Satu Taavitsainen wrote about the needs to further develop our criminal law on crimes of sexual violence and the need to consider the rights of victims, highlighting among other things the problematic nature of the current statute of l

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Protect Children’s Executive Director, senior specialist Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen, legal specialist Anna Ovaska, specialist in developmental psychology Katariina Leivo, and intern, LL.M. student Matilda Sandvik gave a Consultation to the European Commission titled: ”Fighting child sexual abuse: detection, removal and reporting of illegal content online”. Read Protect Children’s legal specialist Anna Ovaska’s blogpost on the Consultation and the current situation in the EU below