Crime scene

On International Day of the Girl, ChildX, with the support of Unizon and 11 Unizon shelters, is taking a stand for girls’ right to protection and safety online.

As with all forms of sexual violence, girls are more vulnerable, but child safety online affects all children. Sexual violence against children online and offline continues to increase at an alarming rate.

This year’s theme for Girls’ Day is ‘Girls’ Vision for the Future’. For us, it is crucial to ensure that girls have a safe future online.

With the Crime Scene campaign, we want to make it clear that we are in a crisis. With the development of technology, exploitation has moved to the safety of the children’s room, and both first contact and exploitation now often take place online. We use AR technology to illustrate what a first physical encounter between victim and perpetrator can look like.

The statistics are clear: one in five children in Europe is sexually abused, and 70% of perpetrators seek out their victims online. In 2022, more child abuse material was discovered than ever before – and the amount of material in the most severe category had more than doubled since 2020. Instagram is the social media platform perpetrators themselves say they use to contact children and where they share the most child abuse material.

Together, we are now demanding that both online platforms and Swedish politicians take responsibility. The statistics are clear: one in five children in Europe are victims of sexual violence, and 70% of perpetrators seek out children online.

A new law is needed at EU level to ensure the safety and protection of children online.

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Here you can find all shelters participating in the campaign are listed.

Thanks to Guller’s group for developing Crime Scene with us.