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    Violence against children

    The digital environment may open up new ways to perpetrate violence against children, by facilitating situations in which children experience violence and/or may be influenced to do harm to themselves or others.

    Crises, such as pandemics, may lead to an increased risk of harm online, given that children spend more time on virtual platforms in those circumstances.

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[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.

 

Ansicht: Towards a global indicator. On unidentified victims in child sexual exploitation material. Technical Report.

Towards a global indicator. On unidentified victims in child sexual exploitation material. Summary Report.

This is a summary of a longer study called Towards a Global Indicator on Unidentified Victims in Child Sexual Exploitation Material, published by ECPAT International and INTERPOL in February 2018.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Towards a global indicator. On unidentified victims in child sexual exploitation material. Technical Report.

Towards a global indicator. On unidentified victims in child sexual exploitation material. Technical Report.

This report presents the results of a two-part analysis of the multi-country data set contained in the International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) Database housed at INTERPOL and of consultations with law enforcement personnel in relation to the identification of victims and offenders pictured in Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (CSEM) seized by law enforcement around the world.

Ansicht: Landkarte Kinderrechte

Children's Rights Map

The map is only available in German language.

With the map of children's rights, the monitoring body of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of the German Institute for Human Rights shows to what extent individual children's rights are implemented and anchored in Germany's federal states.

Ansicht: Aspekte von Kinderschutz und Kinderrechten bei der Vergabe von Domainnamen

The Impact of Domain Names on Children’s Rights and Child Safety

The presentation explains domain name registration. It shows risks for children and countermeasures.