Conference 2024

Lectures

In November 2024, ChildX, with the support of Novahuset, Ellencentret and Realstars, organized our second national conference. The focus of the day was the identification of children and young people who are victims of sexual exploitation.
Here you can find all the lectures from the conference. Two of the lectures are in English, and the others in Swedish.

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Wanjiku Kaime is a Kenyan-Swedish senior researcher and lecturer at the Department of Psychology and Social Work at Mid Sweden University. Her research aims to study, understand and untangle the factors that interact to produce vulnerability and disadvantage in children and youth. This presentation explores the challenges and ethical considerations involved in talking with vulnerable children as part of researching child sexual exploitation and abuse.

In this lecture, Mathilda Hofling from ChildX will talk about the project Identify several. The project aims to prevent and detect sexual exploitation for remuneration among children and young people, with a special focus on children and young people with neuropsychiatric or intellectual disabilities.

Alltid Sedd is a non-profit organization that works online to offer support to children and young people aged 12 – 20 who are exposed or at risk of becoming involved in commercial sexual exploitation. In this lecture, Hanna Melin talks about what their work looks like.

In this lecture, Moa Lindh from Nova House will talk about how they use social media to find and support children who are victims of sexual exploitation.

Meghan Donavan is a PhD student at Umeå University and research director at the organization Talita. She has researched the Swedish pornography industry and the women, men and children who are exposed to it. In this lecture, she talks about the results of her research and what is important for professionals to consider in order to detect and respond to people who are exploited in porn.

Karin Johansson and Josefine Karlsson, psychologists at the Ellen Center, share good examples of how civil society and the public sector can best work together to provide children who are victims of sexual exploitation with the best possible conditions for support and help.

Elise Thoen presents the winners of the ChildX Award 2024: the Dutch organization Spine. Sebastiaan Landers and Johannes Dijkstra from Spine then lectures on how they fight human trafficking and child sexual exploitation by using online tools.

A discussion on what reforms and initiatives are planned to improve detection and support for children exposed to commercial sexual exploitation. Participants include Sweden’s Minister for Gender Equality Paulina Brandberg, Children’s Ombudsman Juno Blom, ChildX President Jacob Flärdh and Secretary General of 1000 Possibilities Zandra Kanakaris.