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 assessments and making...

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 limitations. We...

NEWS From Italy to Sweden – from Romania to Portugal: In recent months, nearly 100 victims of childhood sexual violence have been...