National Child Protection Week 2021: Join our campaigns to protect children and young people
Calling out sexualisation and sexual exploitation of children
September 5-11 is National Child Protection Week. The theme is 'Every child, in every community, needs a fair go'.
Read on to learn more about what we're doing to combat sexual abuse and exploitation of children, and to give children a 'fair go'.
Read moreWIN! Instagram rolls out new safety measures for teens
We’ve had another #WakeUpInstagram campaign win, with Instagram announcing the following new measures to help protect young people from predators:
Read moreSubmission to European Commission Public Consultation on Child sexual abuse online - detection, removal and reporting
We were pleased to make a submission to the European Commission's public consultation on Child sexual abuse online - detection, removal and reporting.
Read moreThe mainstreaming of child exploitation material on Instagram
Why Facebook must abandon plans for 'Instagram for kids'
Collective Shout with James Evans*
**Content warning**
How would you feel if you found out your neighbour had 10,000 images of underage girls wearing bikinis on his hard drive? What if I told you that Instagram hosts collections just like this, serving no other purpose than the sexual entertainment of men?
Read moreWIN: New measures to help protect minors from predators on Instagram
We've had another major #WakeUpInstagram win, with Instagram's rollout of new tools to help protect underage users from predators on the platform including:
Read moreUN Submission: Children's rights in the digital environment
Update: UN adopts General Comment on children's online rights (February 11, 2021)
The United Nations now recognises that children’s rights extend to the online realm. These rights - and the responsibilities they invoke on world governments and corporates regarding issues such as children’s online safety - are outlined in the Committee on the Rights of the Child's General Comment 25.
Read moreCollective Shout supports Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Tech giants must act to stop sexual exploitation
According to data recently shared by the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), we are in the grips of a global child sexual exploitation epidemic. Much of the abuse is happening online and in plain sight. And Australian men are the third largest consumers of live, online child sexual abuse, according to the Australian Federal Police.
Read moreWin! Instagram adds in-app reporting tool to flag accounts that sexualise children
Instagram has responded directly to our #WakeUpInstagram campaign by adding a new in-app reporting tool to report accounts which sexualise children.
Read moreBe careful with photos, talk about sex: how to protect your kids from online sexual abuse
Article reprinted from The Conversation
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