Collective Action

COLLECTIVE ACTION End Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse facilitated by TechnologiesDigitally facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse - scale • 1. [...] Offered money or gifts in return for sexual images or videos • 2. [...] Offered money or gifts online to meet them in person for sexual activity • 3. [...] Shared sexual images without your consent • 4. [...] Threatened or blackmailed online to engage in sexual activities 1-20% of children experienced at least one form of OCSEAGender • Boys and Girls but perceptions of risks are different • Talking about sex online – 42% girls perceive as high-risk - 21% boys (Philippines) • Online safety education - only 38% of boys and 52% of girls (Indonesia, Philippines) • Boys – more online gaming platforms • [...] Platforms • Facebook/ Messenger • WhatsApp • YouTube, Twitter (ie X) and TikTokIn-Person and Online - connected • Online bullying continuation from home, school or neighbourhoods • Sharing self-generated sexual images online, in-person or in both spaces • Offenders use social media to meet in-personDisclosure • 1/3 did not tell anyone • 40% - their friends • 24% - siblings • 2.5% - a social w [...] Role of caregivers • 86 % - 100 % use the internet from home • 40% expect caregivers to keep them safe online • 31% - 61% caregivers knew less about the internet than their children • Caregivers’ information on online safety: family or friends and school • Between 9% and 43% said that they could not help ‘much’ or ‘at all’ “In their time, there were no such technologies and they [the caregivers] t [...] The girls and boys don’t report, it scares them, because of the process they are going to face because it involves ‘destroying the castle that you had built’” (Conversations’, Colombia) “I don’t remember, I only get papers from my lawyer, and I didn’t even know that I had a lawyer.” (Conversations’ Participant 10, Peru)Voices of Survivors - Do not judge me when I make a mistake “It made me fe