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Disrupting Harm

Evidence from 13 countries on the context, threats, and children’s perspectives of online child sexual exploitation and abuse.

In a unique collaboration INTERPOL, ECPAT International and UNICEF have combined forces to assess the threat, conduct analysis and collecting children’s perspectives of online child sexual exploitation and abuse in 13 countries in Southeast Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa. Not only the combined expertise of the partners makes this project unique, Disrupting Harm also creates the possibility to compare across the 13 countries. In the second half of 2021 and early 2022, the three partners will launch a joint report for each of the 13 counties and two regional reports. The countries included in the projects are Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

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ECPAT

ECPAT conducted a comprehensive analysis of the existing research, legislation, policy, and systems addressing online child sexual exploitation and abuse for each target country, as well as collect data in the 13 countries.

  • Up to 12 in-depth interviews with senior national duty-bearers from governments
  • Information from hot- and helplines and the Internet industry to complement INTERPOL’s threat assessment
  • Face-to-face surveys with 50 welfare staff per country to understand the scale, scope, and context of online child sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Interviews with 10 survivors of online child sexual exploitation and abuse, their parents and caregivers, and 10 justice stakeholders per country to assess access justice
  • Interviews with 33 survivors of online child sexual exploitation and abuse in Cambodia, Malaysia, Kenya, Namibia and South Africa. ECPAT members play a crucial role in collecting data
  • In Southeast Asia, we are partnering with: APLE Cambodia, ECPAT Indonesia, End CSEC Malaysia, ECPAT Philippines, and ECPAT Foundation Thailand.
  • In Africa, we collaborate with EDA in Ethiopia, KAACR in Kenya, Rede Da Criança in Mozambique, Lifeline/Childline Namibia, Jelly Beanz in South Africa, C-SEMA and KIWOHEDE in Tanzania, and UYDEL in Uganda.
Assessing Threat

INTERPOL

For each country, INTERPOL will collect data from law enforcement agencies, NGOs and the Internet industry to measure the scope and nature of the problem. INTERPOL will also conduct a needs analysis of the capacity of law enforcement agencies to counter online child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Children’s Perspectives

UNICEF

UNICEF will conduct nationally-representative household surveys with around 1,000 children and 1,000 of their parents or caregivers in the 14 partner countries. The purpose is to hear directly from children and parents about children’s online experiences.

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RESOURCES

Disrupting Harm Brief – English
Disrupting Harm Brief – Bahasa Indonesia
Disrupting Harm Brief – Khmer
Disrupting Harm Brief – Portuguese
Disrupting Harm Brief – Thai
Disrupting Harm Brief – Vietnamese
Disrupting Harm Work Plan

Disrupting Harm: New project to research online child sexual exploitation in 14 countries

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