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**Child Safety Online: Global challenges and strategies **
“The Internet, mobile phones and other electronic media provide children and young people with levels of access to information, culture, communication and entertainment impossible to imagine just twenty years ago. With many of their extraordinary benefits, however, come hazards. The Internet and associated technologies have made abusive images of children easier to create and distribute, and provide significant new opportunities for abusers to access and make contact with children and young people online. While information and communication technology (ICT) has not created crimes involving sexual abuse and exploitation of children, it has enhanced the scale and potential of some old and familiar ones. (…) “The report also considers ways to build a safer environment for children and young people for whom the Internet is a basic social medium in which the online and offline worlds come together. It outlines relevant international law and key challenges to governments and law enforcement agencies in achieving greater protection for children and young people. It argues that a multitiered approach is necessary to challenge the potential threats to children’s well-being and safety in the online environment. Accordingly, it concludes by putting forward a strategic protection framework with four main objectives: 1) empowering children and promoting their resilience; 2) removing impunity for abusers; 3) reducing availability of harmful material from the Internet and access to harm; and 4) promoting recovery and rehabilitation for children who have experienced harm.”
UNICEF Office of Research, Innocenti.
