#StopChildAbuse
Online child sexual abuse and exploitation is a reality. It may be difficult to accept, but any child can be a victim in any of its multiple forms. Therefore, the involvement of families, schools and society as a whole is essential in understanding, preventing, reducing and dealing with this type of risks.
Understanding online child sexual abuse and exploitation
Youth against online sexual abuse
Families involvement in detecting and reacting to an abuse
Fighting against sexual abuse from the classroom
About the #StopChildAbuse campaign
4NSEEK Project
4NSEEK, Forensic Against Sexual Exploitation of Children, is a project co-financed by the European Union (UE) through the financing program Internal Security Fund – Police, aimed to promote international police cooperation with the use of common forensic tools and procedures, offering advanced training in this field, improving the capabilities of the specialized forensic tool ‘4NSEEK’ for child sexual abuse material, and raising awareness to detect and prevent online child sexual abuse and exploitation.
The working group of experts
To broaden perspective about these complex situations, a working group of experts was constituted, including both professionals from the 4NSEEK partnership, and professionals from other reference entities in this field. The contributions from this working group of experts have been essential for the development of the #StopChildAbuse awareness campaign. The entities participating in the working group are:
- National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE)
- Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV)
- Guardia Civil, Central EMUME (Central support and investigation team for Women and Minors) – Technical Unit of the Judicial Police
- Cuerpo Nacional de Policía
- Malta Police Force
- EUROPOL – European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)
- UNICEF Spain
- Federation of Associations for the Prevention of Child Mistreatment in Spain (FAPMI) ECPAT Spain
- EU KIDS ONLINE, leading research group that studies children and new resources of the Basque Country University
Youth participation
The 4NSEEK working group of experts considered useful to count with the youth perspective when designing the awareness campaign. Therefore, we are grateful for the collaboration of the Youth Panels from Spain and Portugal in the definition of the awareness materials targeted to youth in the #StopChildAbuse campaign. The entities that have collaborated to facilitate the youth participation are:
- Spanish Youth Panel:
- Portuguese Youth Panel: