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Tech Coalition

Lantern 2024 Transparency Report

The second annual Lantern Transparency Report, providing a review of the program’s impact in 2024 and highlighting key programmatic updates, successes, challenges, and opportunities for future growth.

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Childlight

Searchlight 2025: Who benefits? Shining a light on the business of child sexual exploitation and abuse

The latest Searchlight report from Childlight into the nature of the crisis underscores the need for urgent action, shining a light on the financial networks that fuel child sexual exploitation…

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Call for input: A child-centered response to sexual exploitation of children in street situations

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, Ms. Mama Fatima Singhateh invites input to the forthcoming report (due October 2025) which will…

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ECPAT International

ECPAT International launches child participation newsletter

Bringing child and youth perspectives to the fore, the first edition of ECPAT International’s new Child Participation Newsletter explores the many ways the organisation works with young people around the…

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Microsoft

Protecting the public from abusive AI-generated content across the EU

Microsoft White Paper focusing on the protection of children, women and older adults from potential harms caused by AI, including AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and deepfakes.

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Council of Europe

Protection of children against exploitation and sexual abuse

A free five hour online training course for legal professionals on the protection of children against exploitation and sexual abuse.

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5Rights Foundation

Children & AI design code

The Code takes a pragmatic and practical view. It sets out a process to identify, evaluate, and mitigate the known risks of AI to children and prepare for the known…

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Childline, NSPCC

Childline data reveals boys are most vulnerable to ‘sextortion’

Childline’s latest data shows boys are more vulnerable to sextortion. New campaign targeted at young boys to remind them of how easy it is to be fooled by fake accounts…

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ECPAT International, Eurochild, Terre des Hommes Netherlands

VOICE Child Friendly/ Accessible Report

The VOICE Research Child Friendly/Accessible Report on Child Safety Online is a resource designed with and for children to ensure that vital information about child safety online is accessible to…

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Bark

Bark’s Annual Report 2024

Every year, we analyze the rate at which children encounter problematic content and people online. This year, we processed an astounding 7.9 billion activities on family accounts across texts, email,…

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TikTok

Digital Services Act: Our fourth transparency report on content moderation in Europe

This report not only shares updates on TikTok’s content moderation efforts, including violative content removals, illegal content reports, and user appeals, but also introduces new metrics that further enhance transparency…

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World Childhood Foundation

Follow the money: Payments for live streaming of child sexual abuse in the Philippines

World Childhood Foundation, in collaboration with the Rights Lab University of Nottingham, reveals how financial data— from remittances to crypto —can help detect, understand & disrupt the live streaming of…

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5Rights Foundation

Advancing Trust & Safety: systems and standards for online safety professionals 

Trust & Safety (T&S) professionals play a vital yet often overlooked role in making digital spaces safe and accountable. This report examines the challenges they face and proposes steps to…

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Thorn

Deepfake nudes & young people: navigating a new frontier in technology-facilitated nonconsensual sexual abuse and exploitation

Drawing on a survey of 1,200 young people aged 13-20, this research explores their awareness of deepfake nudes, lived experiences with them, and their involvement in creating such content.

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ICMEC, Save the Children Romania

Choose your digital path: empowering children in a digital world

A new interactive storybook campaign by ICMEC and Save the Children Romania aimed at teaching young users about online safety in a fun, engaging way.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment

PlayStation Safety Report

This report introduces the three safety pillars that underpin our safety philosophy for keeping our players safe: Control Your Experience, Shield Our Players, and Enforce Our Standards.

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eSafety Commissioner

Behind the screen:The reality of age assurance and social media access for young Australians

This transparency report, Behind the Screen: The Reality of Age Assurance and Social Media Access for Young Australians, represents a first for eSafety. By combining regulatory insights from industry with…

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Snap

New Research: Online risk exposure rose in 2024, but so did Gen Z requests for help

The online environment became riskier for Generation Z in 2024, with eight out of 10 teens and young adults reporting exposure to at least one online risk. Encouragingly, despite that…

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Digital Thriving Playbook, Tech Coalition

Combating online child sexual exploitation and abuse in gaming

A guide drawing on experience of Tech Coalition members on combating CSEA in online gaming environments.

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Common Sense Media

Teens Trust, and Technology: in the Age of AI

This new research brief examines how U.S. teens age 13–18 experience and perceive trust online in the age of generative AI.

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Ofcom

Statement: age assurance and children’s access

These decisions on age assurance and children’s access assessments mark a major milestone, kick-starting the process for user-to-user and search services (Part 3 services) to conduct their children’s access assessment,…

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World Economic Forum

Global risks report 2025

The Global Risks Report 2025 presents the findings of the Global Risks Perception Survey 2024- 2025 (GRPS), which captures insights from over 900 experts worldwide. The report analyses global risks…

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INHOPE

INHOPE Global CSAM Legislative Overview 2024 available in various languages

INHOPE’s second edition of the Global CSAM Legislative Overview, a vital document that reviews child sexual abuse material (CSAM) legislation across 61 countries. Now available in English, French, Greek and…

Briefing

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Childlight

Public health and child sexual exploitation & abuse

Research conducted by Childlight, the global child safety institute located within the University of Edinburgh found it to be more prevalent than many other childhood public health issues.

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UNICEF

Safeguarding futures: exploring the impacts of generative AI on child online protection in Nepal

To address these challenges and improve the safety of Generative AI for children, this study was conducted in partnership with UNICEF Nepal and ChildSafeNet. The report examines how children and…

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Brave Movement

From data to dialogue: Youth perspectives on child sexual abuse in the digital sphere

A report by Brave Movement looking closely at youth perspectives on child sexual abuse online, online safety and psychological consequences of online harms.

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ICMEC Australia

Artificial intelligence and child protection: A collaborative approach to a safer future

Led by ICMEC Australia, the SaferAI for Children Coalition’s Discussion Paper on AI and child protection.

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United Nations General Assembly

UN General Assembly adopts milestone cybercrime treaty

Landmark global treaty aimed at strengthening international cooperation to combat cybercrime and protecting societies from digital threats adopted.

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Global Platform for Child Exploitation Policy

Global Platform for Child Exploitation Policy

NCMEC’s Global Platform for Child Exploitation Policy is a new initiative through which NCMEC will drive policy and legislative advocacy with data and insights. The Platform is now live at…

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Australian Government

Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media, after its parliament approved the world’s strictest laws

The laws place the onus on social media platforms – not young people or their parents – to take reasonable steps to prevent Australians under 16 years of age from…

Briefing

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UNICEF

Protecting Children From Violence and Exploitation in Relation to the Digital Environment

This policy brief sets out key recommendations to protect children from violence and exploitation in relation to the digital environment.

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All Tech Is Human

Balancing Privacy And Child Safety In Encrypted Environments

All Tech Is Human, a leading Responsible Tech organization that unites stakeholders to solve complex problems, publishes Balancing Privacy and Child Safety in Encrypted Environments, an ecosystem-empowering white paper designed…

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UNICEF

More than 370 million girls and women subjected to childhood sexual violence globally

UNICEF estimates the scale of childhood sexual violence against women and girls globally.

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Meta

Improved reporting tools to identify child exploitation on social media

Meta’s Human Rights 2023 report shows that work and updates to prevent child exploitation including reporting tools led to a 75% increase in reports sent by teens on Messenger and…

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Plan International

Building digital resilience: Girls and young women demand a safer digital future

A collaboration between Plan International and CNN As Equals hearing directly from girls and young women about the harms they face online and how they can be kept safe.

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Internet Matters

Digital dilemmas: parents’ perspectives on restricting children’s smartphone and social media use

Internet Matters’ new research report. With recent debates about the role of smartphones and social media in young people’s lives, this new research seeks to include parents’ views and voices…

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Protect Children

What drives online child sexual abuse offending? Understanding motivations, facilitators, situational factors, and barriers

This report reveals the intricate web of factors that drive online child sexual abuse offending, offering critical insights into the motivations, facilitators, situational factors, and barriers of CSAM-related crimes.

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Thorn

Youth perspectives on online safety 2023 report

Thorn’s report on 2023 trends in youth online safety highlighting deepfakes and other behavioural trends.