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Visible Evidence – Forgotten Children. The Need for a Child Protection and Children’s Rights Focus in Identifying Children who have been Sexually Abused for the Production of Child Abuse Images

Document number
1599
Date
2006
Title
Visible Evidence – Forgotten Children. The Need for a Child Protection and Children’s Rights Focus in Identifying Children who have been Sexually Abused for the Production of Child Abuse Images
Author/publisher
Save the Children Europe Group
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Sexual exploitation, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
Summary
Save the Children Europe group presents this policy paper in response to the fact that very few children abused for the production of child abuse images are being identified, despite the existence of primary evidence within the abusive pictures. The Interpol database of child abuse images contains photographic evidence of more than 20.000 individual children who have been sexually abused for the production of child abuse images. In May 2006, fewer than 500 of these victims had been identified and become subject to protection.
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