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The UN Cybercrime Convention is a global treaty that aims to reduce the prevalence of the online sexual exploitation of children (OSEAC) by providing law enforcement agencies with the tools to domestically and internationally collaborate with other agencies to fight against trafficking and OSEAC-related crimes. If approved, the convention would be the first legal framework to be debated and accepted by consensus among all UN member states. Some elements of the treaty include standardizing the global definition of a child and Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), criminalizing CSAM-related activities, modernizing laws to combat online child sexual exploitation, and ensuring the rightful prosecution of offenders. “Adopting these measures will allow for stronger coordination and collaboration between law enforcement agencies across countries, ensuring they have access to the resources needed to investigate and stop child victimization and create a global network that can better activate to identify cybercriminals and bring them to justice from continent to continent.”  -End OSEAC Survivor’s Council, from a letter written in support of the convention The General Assembly is expected to vote on this treaty by the end of the year. We urge the U.S. government to join as a signatory. ChildFund International Thorn International Justice Mission Raven #WeArePACT

Check out this new case study we reviewed with ECPAT International and ECPAT France: The #GlobalBoysInitiative case studies document the diverse approaches of practitioners worldwide when working with boys from various contexts and communities. Each case study highlights promising practices and lessons learned, while addressing the vital question: “How can we work with children and young boys at risk or survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse through a gender-sensitive approach?” From the report: "ECPAT France found that adopting a non-judgemental approach is essential to building trust and putting children at the centre of the relationship. By adopting a child-centred approach, the team provides all the information necessary for the children to make informed and safe decisions, while always respecting their autonomy and ability to make decisions affecting them." #WeArePACT

Introducing the Global Alliance for the Protection of Boys from Sexual Violence! The #GAPB brings together international and local organisations dedicated to addressing sexual violence against boys in all its forms. Our mission is deeply connected to the fight against gender-based violence affecting women and girls. Together, we are working toward a world where every child is protected and has a future full of hope and possibility. 👉 Visit our website to learn more and subscribe for updates: https://lnkd.in/g4seKJcp Logo and branding thoughtfully designed by Karen Vinalay. All Survivors Project Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice Family for Every Child Physicians for Human Rights Save the Children International Women's Refugee Commission

📢 YESSS!!! Meta is finally taking action to hide teens’ followers/following lists from sextortion scammers. 🔥 48 hours after I appeared on Australian national news—calling on Mark Zuckerberg directly to implement this safeguard—Meta announces this new privacy feature. 🎯 Meta announced today: “Sextortion scammers often use the following and follower lists of their targets to try and blackmail them. Now, accounts we detect as showing signals of scammy behavior won’t be able to see people’s follower or following lists, removing their ability to exploit this feature.” 📈 At least 39 teens have died by suicide while being targeted by this scam in the past 2 years. 📲 “These potential sextorters also won’t be able to see lists of accounts that have liked someone’s posts, photos they’ve been tagged in, or other accounts that have been tagged in their photos.” 👉 I’ve been calling on Meta to hide these lists for 10 months. While they are only hiding these from scammy accounts, there is still no privacy setting for all users to keep their network private. ⚠️ ALSO: Last week, Meta removed over 800 Facebook Groups and 820 accounts that were affiliated with Yahoo Boys and were attempting to organize, recruit and train new sextortion scammers. ⛔️ Yahoo Boys are now banned under Meta’s Dangerous Organizations policy—after I called on them publicly to do so. 🙏🏻 Thankful for this LinkedIn community and the pressure we’ve put on tech giants to safeguard teens from the worst scam in history.

🗣️ You need to know about these 5 different types of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA)‼️ IBSA is a broad term that encompasses the creation, manipulation, theft, extortion, threatened or actual distribution, or the use of images for a sexual purpose without meaningful consent. 1. AI-generated forged pornography 2. Non-consensual distribution of sexually explicit material (NCDSEM) 3. Sexual extortion (sextortion) 4. Recording sexual violence (RSV) 5. Video voyeurism (VV) According to a survey from the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, 1 in 8 respondents had been a victim of IBSA in one form or another. It is important to understand the different types of IBSA in order to recognize victimization and build solutions💪 It only takes an instant for anyone to become a victim of this exploitation. TAKE ACTION: ask Congress to pass legislation combatting IBSA! To read the full article, click this link: https://buff.ly/3YirnbP Or visit buff.ly/3AmAEaH #endexploitation #NCOSE #ibsa #ncdsem #vv #sextortion #csam

New Guidance for Online Platforms to Help Stop Child Sexual Exploitation Under the REPORT Act, online platforms are now required to report child sex trafficking and online enticement to NCMEC’s CyberTipline. Our guidelines will help them recognize these crimes on their platforms. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eCXWNVub

Congratulations Melanie Thompson! What a fitting award to the courageous work you do every day. PACT is cheering you on and celebrating your achievements!

Instagram is “commonly known to be a leading site visited by pedophiles looking for images of children,” PACT CEO Lori Cohen tells the DailyMail in their recently published article. Jeremy Bieber, popstar Justin Bieber’s father, has been accused of ignoring this troubling fact by sharing an average of a photo a week since birth on his 6 year old daughter’s instagram account (which has to be run by her parents, as minors under 13 are prohibited from using the app), some of which include the child in bikinis or revealing cheer outfits. Research conducted by the DailyMail highlights disturbing comments made by some of the account’s 351,000+ followers, and suggests that 20 percent of Bay's followers are accounts registered as male, almost entirely aged between 18 and 34. They report that photos that get the most likes are those with her brother Justin– and the ones where she is seen in a bikini or cheer outfits. 'A parent would not set loose their bikini-clad child in a room full of pedophiles,' Protect All Children from Trafficking's Lori Cohen told the Mail. 'Why would they post an image of that same child online where they will potentially be viewed and - even more frightening - contacted by many thousands of them?' Full article here: https://lnkd.in/ggUba8rf The DailyMail also references reporting from a NYT article on a similar subject titled "A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men" that we had previously shared on our page: https://lnkd.in/gh7xDS6r

Introducing the 2023 Annual Report: A Year of imPACT Take a look at our year in numbers, figures, photos and stories as we celebrate our first full calendar year under our new name, Protect All Children from Trafficking. Do you remember these imPACTful events and achievements? #WeArePACT Link to blog and Annual Report here: https://lnkd.in/e7b-PB6B