• Require platforms to proactively detect and disrupt all forms of child
sexual abuse and exploitation, while respecting fundamental rights.
Ensure robust enforcement measures (e.g., meaningful financial sanctions)
when platforms fail to take reasonable steps to protect children.
• Equip regulators and oversight bodies with adequate technical
expertise, resources and powers to carry out their roles and hold
industry accountable.
Equip professionals to
respond effectively and without
re-traumatization.
For many children, pathways to support, help-seeking, justice
and recovery often feel confusing, dismissive, or retraumatizing.
• Provide police, prosecutors, judges, social workers, educators and
healthcare professionals with ongoing, specialized training on
technology-facilitated abuse, including digital evidence handling,
trauma-informed interviewing and child-centred communication.
• Invest in long-term, stable funding to ensure that social, health and justice
services are accessible, adequately staffed, coordinated and capable of
providing sustained support rather than short-term crisis responses.
• Develop institutional policies and multi-disciplinary models that seek
to minimize the number of times children must retell their experiences
and ensure they are treated with dignity throughout the process.
Through Children’s Eyes
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