"This guide provides advice and information on digital parenting. It will help you speak to your child about safety online in a positive way and point you towards resources that will help you manage and reduce risks online for your child. Learning to safely navigate the internet and online platforms
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is like learning to cycle or swim: children need adult support and supervision to learn to do this safely." (About this guide)
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"Parents and other supporting adults can understandably become anxious about the need to be consistently up to date on the fast-changing preferences, behaviours and technologies that children adopt, adapt and create. Helping parents to recognise the existing skills, knowledge and capabilities they h
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ave in caring for their children and how those can be applied to digital contexts, despite rapid changes in the landscape and the types of products children are accessing, can alleviate some of this anxiety and help parents to provide their children with better all-round support. An evidence based, systems change approach should be adopted to help parents, teachers and carers create a community of support around children. This needs to be centred around the processes for equipping children with the digital resilience and critical understanding they need, rather than the specific details of individual platforms or technologies that will rapidly date and drop out of favour." (Conclusion, page 28)
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"This Checklist will assist organisations to consider potential safe." (Page 1)
"This study evaluates the implementation of the Alliance to better protect minors online (‘the Alliance’). Officially launched in 2017, the Alliance is a multi-stakeholder platform through which companies make a series of commitments to address emerging risks that minors face online. The initiat
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ive focuses on protection from harmful content, conduct and contact, and seeks to identify possible areas within these three categories that would benefit from a coordinated approach from companies and other stakeholders to overcome them. In general, the evaluation finds that the Alliance is an original, relevant means to protect minors online. There is however unrealised potential to foresee, discuss and forge common solutions across different stakeholder types, including on new and emerging threats to the safety of minors online." (Executive summary, page 5)
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"The aim of this document is mapping and assessing the existing support services for children who have suffered a form of violence in the digital environment, including the best national and international practices and models, in order to provide recommendations for future actions of institutions an
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d professionals in the Republic of Serbia. Mapping organisations and institutions that aim at providing support to children victims was done in order to make a comprehensive overview of protection for children victims of digital violence from victim identification, victim support and epowerment technique and the process of integration and reintegration into the society. The mapping focused on best practices in protection of victims of various forms of violence against children in digital environment." (Page 9)
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"While cyberviolence may be targeted at any individual or group and may entail a wide range of acts, this mapping study focuses in particular on children and women, who are often the victims of cyberviolence. The experience and solutions with regard to these victims should modus modendi be applicabl
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e to other categories of victims while taking into account the specificities of violence against different categories of victims. The present study is thus aimed at mapping acts that constitute cyberviolence and drawing conclusions as to typologies and concepts; providing examples of national experiences and responses to such acts (including policies, strategies, legislation, cases and case law); discussing international responses under the Budapest Convention and other treaties (in particular the Istanbul and Lanzarote Conventions of the Council of Europe); developing recommendations as to the further course of action." (Page 2)
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"Across three studies, younger victims are associated with greater levels of sexual violence, produced within a family context and more likely to be widely distributed. However, the preponderance of images are of pubescent and pre-pubescent children and the numbers of images of very young children (
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infants and toddlers) remain relatively low. This is in contrast to the views of experts interviewed in the current study. The majority of victims and offenders are white Caucasians, and while there has been an increase in other ethnic groups, these numbers remain disproportionately small. This does require further investigation given the increasing availability of Internet connectivity through hand-held devices across hand-held devices and the concerns expressed about, for example, live streaming of abuse." (Executive summary, page 5)
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"Age is the key factor that differentiates among children’s online experiences, with gender also significant. One in ten children to one in five young teens say they encountered something worrying or nasty online in the past year. Children’s top worries are pornography and violence; they say the
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y encounter these most often on video-sharing sites, followed by other websites, then social networking sites and games. Children are also concerned about the levels of advertising online, their spending too much time online, inappropriate contacts, rumours and nastiness. Top parent concerns include online violence. There has been little increase or decrease in online risk in recent years, although there are some indications of a rise in hate and self-harm content. It is not possible to determine whether the internet has increased the overall amount of risk children face as they grow up, or whether the internet instead provides a new location for risk experiences, but the nature of the internet itself surely alters and amplifies the consequences." (Executive summary, page 2-3)
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"The Mission: To grow a global coalition of representatives from religions, governments, international organisations, academia and the research community, civil society and elsewhere, working together toward a common objective: defending the dignity of minors and vulnerable adults in the digital wor
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ld. The Vision: To create a digital world where children and vulnerable adults are respected and free to exercise their digital rights and are safe from exploitation and abuse. The Strategy: To achieve 13 goals recognizing the urgent need for an inter-sectoral strategic collaboration which calls upon technology, political and religious leaders, health and social care professionals and others to share responsibility for achieving them. Goal 1: To raise awareness of digital risks especially with respect to primary prevention and safeguarding, and undertake new social research. Goal 2: To mobilise faith leaders to support the implementation of the Declaration. Goal 3: To revise applicable laws to be more effective in preventing abuse. Goal 4: To redefine the responsibilities and actions required by technology companies. Goal 5: To improve provision of child rescue and treatment services. Goal 6: To improve identification and interventions for children and young people at risk. Goal 7: To improve the capabilities and collaborative efforts of international law enforcement organisations. Goal 8: To train clinicians to better serve the needs of victims. Goal 9: To expand treatment resources for people harmed by abuse. Goal 10: To research the health impacts on young people of viewing pornographic images. Goal 11: To set safety standards, agree to a code of conduct, and mandate filtering and age verification to protect children from inappropriate online content. Goal 12: To improve education of children and young people. Goal 13: To ensure all citizens are alert to the risks of abuse and know how to report it." (Executive summary)
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"The study found that all selected economies are working to protect children from online sexual abuse and exploitation. Regardless of their level of Internet penetration, all criminalise the production and distribution of child pornography under domestic law. However, the quality of legislation—wh
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en present—vary. Relevant laws in economies with high Internet penetration tend to have a clear and consistent definition of “child” and “child pornography”, and include offenses facilitated by all Internet-enabled platforms. Economies with high Internet penetration have also enacted laws and developed interventions on other aspects of child online safety, such as children’s exposure to harmful content, cyberbullying and Internet addiction. But there does not seem to be any targeted legislative response to the online privacy of children and the protection of children from information security risks. Moreover, comprehensive measures to equip children with the knowledge, tools and skills necessary for them to manage these risks are still lacking, particularly in developing countries in the region. Recently, in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Singapore, laws have been passed to protect children against cyberbullying. These laws are being criticised for criminalising children and being inconsistent with the right to freedom of expression. Some believe that it is more effective to tackle cyberbullying through awareness-raising and education programmes with parents, guardians, schools and young people themselves. It must be emphasised that drafting and implementing legislation are only one among the many steps that can be taken by governments. The study found that countries have used a mix of measures to address these concerns, including technical tools to filter content, end-user empowerment, and cooperation between multiple stakeholders, including children." (Executive summary, page 3)
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"This report surfaces what the Technical Working Group identified as the chief barriers to an optimal global response to online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) within three sectors: law enforcement, industry and government. The barriers identified are explained in detail in the report, and specif
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ic recommendations made for each sector. Recommendations are also provided for joint action. Two overarching themes have also emerged. First, the need for greater standardisation of process, practice and policies; second, the need for greater collaboration, coordination and inter-operability across stakeholders and functions, nations and jurisdictions." (Executive summary)
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"It is our sincerest hope that this guide will have provided you with a greater understanding about online child sexual exploitation. We hope it has also given you a clearer realisation of the important role that you and your faith community can play in helping to prevent and end this crime. Togethe
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r, we can combine the spiritual maturity, influence, expertise and authority you carry as leaders in your community, with the technical experience gained from policymakers, law enforcement and child-focused experts to ensure this violence stops." (Conclusion, page 36)
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"Let’s review what we have learned to make the internet safe for children like us: be responsible users of technology; be careful every time we connect to the internet; learn how to act against cyberbullying; be a good role model and seek help, if needed." (Summary, page 13)
"This online guide is designed to: inform a wide range of organisations about Internet hotlines and their essential role in forming a comprehensive national response to online child sexual exploitation and abuse [...]; advise organisations that are considering or are already planning to set up an In
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ternet Hotline about the main requirements and considerations; recommend good practice in relation to the hotline status, structure, operations and interinstitutional relationship; connect potential hotline operators with hotline development support available from the INHOPE Foundation, experienced INHOPE member hotlines around the world, leading initiatives and support available from law enforcement, NGOs, the private sector and governmental partners around the world." (Page 1)
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