REPORT Protect Children's 2023 Annual Report gives an overview of our work to protect children from sexual violence in 2023.

On Friday, April 19th, we organized a meeting of Our Voice group in Helsinki. The meeting was attended by 18 survivors of childhood sexual v

RESEARCH REPORT A groundbreaking peer-reviewed article published in the high-level journal, Nature Scientific Reports.

This new episode from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) focuses on new research from Finnish child protection agency Protect Children...

Protect Children aims to strengthen collaboration and coordination between initiatives, highlighting the potential for greater impact...

Child sexual abuse is a prevalent issue in our digital age, but hope can be found in the growing effort to combat this threat through...

REPORT Multilingual Perspectives on Child Sexual Abuse Material Offenders: Insights from English, Russian, Portuguese and...

REPORT Knowledge to Prevent Online Sexual Violence Against Children: Insights from a Survey of Child Sexual Abuse Material Offenders A...

On February 20th, 2024, Protect Children organised in collaboration with the European Parliament a high-level expert event. Our Executive...

REPORT Protect Children’s study, funded by the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund, brings to light the distressing ease of accessing

On the 6th of February 2024, the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is celebrated. We would like to...

BLOG POST Insights from parents of child victims and adult survivors of online child sexual abuse on the long-lasting impact...

REPORT Findings from the Global ‘Our Voice’ Survivor Survey with a Case Study on Finnish Survivors’ Experiences

STATEMENT Encrypted platforms are quickly becoming a safe haven for individuals who perpetrate crimes of sexual violence against children.

BLOG POST Preliminary findings from our latest research on individuals who search for child sexual abuse material reveals invaluable new...

BLOG POST Today, 20 November 2023, World Children’s Day is celebrated. At Protect Children, we are committed to the protection of...

BLOG POST Last year, the United Nations declared 18 November “World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from Child Sexual Exploitation,...

VIDEO The creation, distribution, and use of CSAM is a far greater problem than what is publicly acknowledged. It is an urgent public...

BLOG POST With unprecedented increase in online crimes of sexual violence against children, more offender-focused initiatives emerge...

MASTER'S THESIS Monna Nuotte & Reetta Sivonen Master's students at the University of Eastern Finland, Monna Nuotte and Reetta Sivonen,...