• Topic

    Special Protection

    Children should be protected from all forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of their welfare in relation to the digital environment.Exploitation may occur in many forms, such as economic exploitation, including child labour, sexual exploitation and abuse, the sale, trafficking and abduction of children and the recruitment of children to participate in criminal activities, including forms of cybercrime.

    By creating and sharing content, children may be economic actors in the digital environment, which may result in their exploitation.

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Ansicht: Terminologischer Leitfaden für den Schutz von Kindern vor sexueller Ausbeutung und sexualisierter Gewalt

Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

The Terminology Guidelines provide guidance for the understanding and use of terms and concepts for individuals and agencies working for the prevention and elimination of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children.

Ansicht: Fakultativprotokoll zum Übereinkommen über die Rechte des Kindes betreffend den Verkauf von Kindern, die Kinderprostitution und die Kinderpornographie

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

The Optional Protocol is a supplement to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and obliges all signatory parties to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and depiction of sexual abuse of children (so-called child pornography).

Ansicht: Richtlinien zur Implementierung des Fakultativ-Protokolls CRC/C/156

Guidelines for the Implementation of the Optional Protocol CRC/C/156

The Guidelines adapt the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol to today's (digital) environment.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: White Paper on Online Harms

White Paper on Online Harms

In April 2019, the British government published a White Paper on Online Harms, which takes a multi-stakeholder approach to further develop the…

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Looking forward: Technological and social change in the lives of European children and young people Report for the ICT Coalition for Children Online

Looking forward: Technological and social change in the lives of European children and young people

The Members of the ICT Coalition for Children Online have recently commissioned a new report on how relationships between technology and the cultural and social practices and institutions that affect children and young people will likely evolve.

Ansicht: Bekämpfung von Grauzonen der sexuellen Ausbeutung von Kindern im Internet

Combat of the Grey Areas of Child Sexual Exploitation on the Internet

In the network No Grey Zones on the Internet, the Centre for Child Protection on the Internet, the Internet complaint centres FSM and eco, jugendschutz.net, companies and science have set themselves the joint goal of combating the sexual exploitation of children.

Ansicht: Kriterienraster: Typische Merkmale der Erscheinungsformen von Posendarstellungen Kinder in sexuellen Posen

Table of criteria: Typical Features of Manifestations of Posed Depictions

Typical Features of Manifestations of Posed Depictions

Ansicht: Kriterienraster: Alltagsdarstellungen im sexualisierenden Kontext Sexualisierte Alltagsdarstellungen von Kindern

Table of criteria: Everyday Depictions in a Sexualizing Context

Everyday Depictions in a Sexualizing Context

Ansicht: Europaratsstrategie (2016-2021)

Guidelines to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of the child in the digital environment

The guidelines to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of the child in the

digital environment were adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the

Council of Europe on 4 July 2018.

The purpose of the guidelines is to assist states and other relevant

stakeholders in their efforts to adopt a comprehensive, strategic

approach in building and containing the often complex world of the

digital environment.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Europaratsstrategie (2016-2021)

Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers on the rights of the child in the digital environment

How to better respect, protect and fulfil the rights of the child in the digital environment is at the core of the new Recommendation adopted today by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. Building on international and European legal instruments, the text provides comprehensive guidelines for action by European governments.