NEWSPOST On 28.11.2022 Protect Children's Executive Director Nina Vaaranen Valkonen together with other experts in the field of child...

NEWS Last week, Executive Director of Protect Children Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen visited Brussels and the Hague in order to discuss further...

BLOGPOST Protect Children joins the multidisciplinary consortium and project of 20 European partners, including law enforcement, NGOs and...

NEWS HM Queen Silvia presents Protect Children with Child10 Award at Royal Castle in Stockholm On 18 October 2022, Her Majesty Queen...

REPORT ReDirection Project: Final Report 2020-2022 The ReDirection Final Report gives an overview of the main aims and key outputs of...

BLOG POST On Monday 5 September 2022, Protect Children held an online event attended by over 100 experts from around the world. The...

BLOGPOST Protect Children’s Executive Director, Senior Specialist Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen participated in the Justice Initiative...

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

EVENT Protect Children will hold an International Expert Webinar on Developments in Offender-Focused Prevention to Protect Children from...

BLOG POST This blog post in collaboration with WeProtect Global Alliance explores the findings of the new research by Protect Children on...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Risk Factors for Child Sexual Abuse Material Users Contacting Children Online: Results of an Anonymous Multilingual Survey on the Dark Web Tegan Insoll, Anna Katariina Ovaska, Juha Nurmi, Mikko Aaltonen & Nina Vaaranen-Valkonen Stanford Internet Observatory, Journal of Online Trust & Safety Abstract This study explores a sample of 1,546 anonymous individuals who voluntarily responded to our "Help us to help you" survey when searching for child sexual abuse ma

The White Paper presents the most recent statistics on crimes of sexual violence against children in Finland. It presents new findings from

STATEMENT Protect Children gave a consultation to the European Commission on evaluating the Victims’ Rights Directive (Directive...

Protect Children specialists attended and presented at the Academy of European Law (ERA) Conference: ‘Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Role of

Protect Children organized an International Expert Webinar on 5 October 2021 for all professionals working in the fie

Protect Children publishes unprecedented research report on preventing online sexual violence against children and launches innovative ReDir

REPORT ReDirection Survey Report CSAM Users in the Dark Web: Protecting Children Through Prevention Tegan Insoll, Anna Ovaska & Nina...

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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

EVENT Protect Children participated in the “Preventing Child Sexual Abuse” – conference, hosted by the Academy of European Law. The aim...