Posts Tagged ‘childlight’
Childlight push for action at global summit
Childlight has urged governments to act to protect children from a global pandemic of sexual exploitation and abuse as ministers from around the world gathered at a major summit in November. The Edinburgh University-based team were at the first Global Ministerial Conference on ending violence against children, in Bogotá. Discussions were informed by Childlight data…
Read MoreChildlight Publishes Groundbreaking Global Index on Child Exploitation and Abuse Prevalence
More than 300 million children a year are victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse, say Scottish university researchers behind the first global estimate of the scale of the crisis. With files containing sexual images of children reported once every second, the authors said pupils “in every classroom, in every school, in every country” are…
Read MoreUniversities forge global partnership to combat sexual exploitation and abuse of children
An international collaboration is to be forged between a specialist unit at the University of Edinburgh and UNSW Sydney to step up the worldwide battle against the sexual exploitation and abuse of children. UNSW’s Professor Michael Salter, a leading expert on the subject, will lead on a new partnership with members of the Childlight Global…
Read More£20 million boost for Scots researchers to fight global exploitation and abuse of children
Pioneering Scottish researchers have been given a multi-million pounds boost in the worldwide battle against the sexual exploitation and abuse of children. A £20 million ten-year funding agreement has been struck to support the work of the Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, based at the University of Edinburgh. Since its launch last year, its team…
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