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Is your child safe from sexual violence?

Kids are growing up online. Lawmakers need to keep up.

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Violence is preventable. Change is possible

Now parents, journalists, and advocates can see exactly where the gaps are — and push the right ministry to close them.

Our new global Index, researched and developed by Economist Enterprise, scores 60 countries on whether their laws actually protect children from grooming, exploitation and abuse imagery online — and where they still fall short. These countries are home to 83% of the world's children and adolescents.

1 in 4
children face online sexual solicitation
9%
of children are coerced into sharing images, then threatened or blackmailed with them
Over 100+ million
child sexual abuse pictures, videos and files reported in one year
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"Survivors and advocates around the world can finally see in one place how their country stacks up. This resource is a compass for every activist and a roadmap for every government."

— Tarana Burke, Founder, 'me too.' Movement
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