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Organisational news and updates.

How do we protect disabled young people from abuse and exploitation in digital spaces?

22 May 2025 - News

May 2025 Experts share lived experience and research in latest webinar for Alliance members WeProtect Global Alliance members joined our latest webinar to explore the critical topic of protecting disabled...

WeProtect Global Alliance commemorates the life and legacy of His Holiness Pope Francis

29 April 2025 - News

WeProtect Global Alliance commemorates the life and legacy of His Holiness Pope Francis, with reflections from Ernie Allen, Chair of WeProtect Global Alliance's Policy Board.

Showing up for children in the global arena: Reflections on the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos

12 February 2025 - Blog

Iain Drennan

Executive Director, WeProtect Global Alliance

This January, I had the opportunity to discuss the critical importance of children’s online safety as a participant of the 2025 World Economic Forum (WEF), amidst the glorious mountain scenery...

KIDZONET join WeProtect Global Alliance

17 January 2025 - News, Press release

KIDZONET is proud to announce its membership of WeProtect Global Alliance, a global coalition of over 300 stakeholders from governments, civil society, and the tech industry, dedicated to ending online...

New film exposes AI’s role in online child sexual exploitation and calls for urgent global action

17 January 2025 - News, Press release

WeProtect Global Alliance today unveiled a compelling short film, Protect Us, exposing the harrowing ways generative AI applications and chatbots are being weaponised to exploit children online

United Nations Convention against Cybercrime: A roadmap to combatting online child sexual exploitation

15 January 2025 - Blog

WeProtect Global Alliance

Representing the first multi-lateral anti-crime treaty in over 20 years, the United Nations (UN) Convention against Cybercrime provides a long-awaited roadmap toward the standardization of global child protection laws. Despite...

WeProtect Global Alliance and Thorn release report on new and emerging technologies impacting online child safety

5 December 2024 - Press release

New research initiative assembles input from nearly 300 stakeholders to analyze technology trends that significantly impact online child safety in the next 5-10 years.

WeProtect Global Summit 2024 convenes global leaders to shape the future of child safety online

3 December 2024 - Press release

WeProtect Global Alliance and the United Arab Emirates bring together world leaders and experts to proactively identify and address tech trends affecting the fight against online exploitation and abuse of...

An open letter on an historic opportunity to protect children from digital harms

28 October 2024 - News

A rallying cry for governments to demonstrate their commitment to ending all forms of violence against children, including online violence.

Solutions to stop a global crisis: “Building Safe Futures: Solutions to End Childhood Sexual Violence” provides a roadmap to end childhood sexual violence

23 October 2024 - News

Safe Futures Hub launches: “Building Safe Futures: Solutions to end childhood sexual violence.” Comprehensive evidence review highlights what works to prevent and respond to childhood sexual violence in low- and...

Model National Response in practice: case studies from Indonesia, Kenya, Romania and Guatemala

27 September 2024 - News

A summary of our recent webinar exploring the Model National Response framework in practice, with speakers from ICMEC.

Dangerous shifts in the rapidly evolving world of online child sexual abuse

16 September 2024 - Blog

Iain Drennan

Executive Director, WeProtect Global Alliance

Online child sexual abuse is evolving, with AI and more sadistic forms of abuse posing new risks. Immediate action is needed from governments, tech, and civil society.

AI-produced child sexual abuse material: Insights from Dark Web forum discussions

11 September 2024 - Blog

WeProtect Global Alliance

Dr Deanna Davy explores the dangers of AI generated CSAM on the Dark Web .

Latest developments on tackling financial sexual extortion

22 August 2024 - News

An update on significant developments in the battle against financial sexual extortion around the world.

Participants sought for research on health and wellbeing of frontline responders

12 August 2024 - News

WeProtect Global Alliance partners with the Virtual Global Taskforce to conduct research on the health and wellbeing of first responders.

Webinar explores the importance of preventative programmes and public health approaches to tackle child sexual abuse online

23 July 2024 - News

Alliance webinar summary: two esteemed experts spoke about the importance of shifting towards a public health response to prevention and some of the ways this is being done in practice...

WeProtect Global Alliance and Thorn launch horizon scanning survey on emerging technologies

22 July 2024 - News

We invite experts working in the field to take part in a brief survey to help identify emerging technologies that may pose risks to child safety online.

Alliance focus on prevention frameworks and research

18 July 2024 - News

Through the Safe Futures Hub, a collaboration between the Alliance, Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), and Together for Girls, we are developing a comprehensive prevention framework and a capabilities checklist...

Survivors of childhood sexual violence seek urgent action to ‘redesign’ the Internet to protect children

17 July 2024 - Press release

Survivors join bereaved parents and high-level political figures, to put pressure on political leaders, funders and tech companies to end childhood sexual abuse online.

Empowering Children Foundation a new member of the prestigious WeProtect Global Alliance

3 July 2024 - News, Press release

Empowering Children Foundation in Poland becomes a new member of WeProtect Global Alliance.

Experts share insights on how financial sexual extortion is being tackled across borders

24 June 2024 - News

Alliance members hear how two of the Alliance's member organisations, NCMEC and Meta, are working across borders to tackle the growing threat of financial sexual extortion.

Navigating AI regulation: mitigating the risks of generative AI in producing child sexual abuse material

14 June 2024 - Blog

WeProtect Global Alliance

Shailey Hingorani explores three common approaches to AI regulation being taken around the world.

Podcast: How can we prevent technology facilitated child sexual violence?

3 June 2024 - Media, News

Listen to The Sexual Violence Research Podcast where Shailey Hingorani discusses how we can prevent technology facilitated child sexual exploitation.

DNSFilter Joins the WeProtect Global Alliance to Help Protect Children Online

31 May 2024 - News, Press release

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ DNSFilter announced today that it has joined the WeProtect Global Alliance to help prevent the spread of child sex abuse material (CSAM) online. This partnership will help...

WeProtect Global Alliance stands behind Global Ministerial Conference on Violence Against Children

27 May 2024 - News

The inaugural Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children - which will take place 7-8 November 2024 in Bogotá, Colombia - will bring together global leaders, policymakers and activists...

World’s first estimate of the scale of online child sexual exploitation and abuse

27 May 2024 - Blog

Paul Stanfield

CEO of Childlight Global Child Safety Institute

New report finds 300 million+ children under the age of 18 have been affected by online child sexual exploitation and abuse in the last 12 months.

No Escape Room: building sextortion awareness

26 April 2024 - Blog

Emma Henderson Vaughan

NCMEC unveils No Escape Room, an interactive experience for parents and caregivers to understand the reality of financial sextortion from a child's perspective.

We should all be concerned about the use of predatory AI

4 April 2024 - Blog

Iain Drennan

Executive Director, WeProtect Global Alliance

Now is the time for safety by design and ensuring children are protected as generative AI tech is built. From removing harmful content from training data, using AI classifiers and manual...

Childlight: using data and insights to shine a light on the road ahead

21 February 2024 - Blog

Paul Stanfield

CEO of Childlight Global Child Safety Institute

This article reflects on how Childight is working in partnership with many others to use their data insight to help join up the system and close the gaps.

Combating abusive AI-generated content: a comprehensive approach

19 February 2024 - Blog

Brad Smith

Vice Chair & President, Microsoft

In this opinion piece, Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, presents Microsoft's work to identify and prevent risks related to generative AI.

The importance of a truly global Alliance – reflections from Brazil

13 February 2024 - Blog

Iain Drennan and Stephanie Quintao

In this blog, the authors share their reflections from a conference that took place in Brazil to mark Safer Internet Day and highlight the power of the Alliance’s global membership.