Protect Children has Analysed Over 4 Million Child Sexual Abuse Material Images to End the Revictimisation of Victims and Survivors, Support Their Recovery, and Restore Their Dignity

Protect Children, as a member of ECLAG (Ending Child Sexual Abuse Group), have signed the joint statement below calling for EU policymakers toact urgently, for a clear and legal framework to be restored to ensure that child sexual abuse material can be detected, reported, and removed.

Protect Children is profoundly disappointed in the European Union’s inability to ensure continued protections for children against sexual abuse online.

Recent headlines have highlighted both the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare’s (THL) recommendations on children’s digital device use and proposals for banning children and young people from social media. These recommendations are welcome, but we hope that the discussion about banning children and young people from social media will move onto somewhat new tracks.

Today, on Safer Internet Day, we demand urgent action against nudifying tools—technology designed to create non-consensual nude and abusive imagery, disproportionately targeting children and women.

Protect Children has provided the UN with a statement on protecting children from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. The purpose of the statement was to inform the final report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children to the 61st session of the Human Rights Council (February-March 2026), pursuant to the Human Rights Council Resolution 52/26.

STATEMENT This statement addresses the disturbing phenomenon of news media outlets using blurred images of victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) in news posts and articles. While blurring images may appear to satisfy legal requirements for privacy, the emotional and psychological damage it may cause to the victim is rarely considered. Protect Children advocates strongly for the protection of the rights to safety and privacy of children by calling for an end to the use of images

STATEMENT In our ongoing fight against child sexual abuse, Protect Children is dedicated to eradicating child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

STATEMENT This Statement aims to inform the Special Rapporteur’s forthcoming report to the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in Octobe

STATEMENT This statement concerns online child sexual abuse and exploitation in France and presents findings from French survivors.

STATEMENT Available in English and Polish. This statement examines the alarming escalation of OCSAE in Poland, offering insights...

STATEMENT Encrypted platforms are quickly becoming a safe haven for individuals who perpetrate crimes of sexual violence against children.

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 “

STATEMENT A statement from Protect Children concerning online child sexual abuse and exploitation in France

STATEMENT A statement from Protect Children concerning online child sexual abuse and exploitation in Belgium

STATEMENT PRELIMINARY FINDINGS Alarming prevalence of child sexual abuse material on the surface web: social media, instant messengers, and pornography platforms Suojellaan Lapsia, Protect Children ry. September 2023 It is more urgent than ever to turn the tide on the child sexual abuse material epidemic. Children are being subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation in every corner of the internet, and without robust legislation, we cannot keep them safe. Preliminary findings

German Speaking Child Sexual Abuse Material Users on the Dark Web A Communication from Suojellaan Lapsia, Protect Children ry. concerning the findings from German responses to the ReDirection “Help us to Help You” Dark Web survey on individuals who search for and view child sexual abuse material on the internet. This Communication is supported by End Violence, ECPAT International, Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), Justice Initiative, Missing Children Europe, Thorn, WeProtect G

NEWS On November 18, 2022 - European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, Protect Children signed an open letter to the European Union calling for stronger measures to make the internet a safe place for children. Protect Children signed the letter as a member of the EU Child Sexual Abuse Legislation Advocacy Group (ECLAG) with Missing Children Europe, Terre des Hommes, Thorn, Internet Watch Foundation, and ECPAT International. "What

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