Digital environments can bring harms to children and young people, especially the worst forms, namely online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) and other existing or emerging forms of online violence against children and young people.
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We need to foster an online community where every child feels safe and empowered. We can achieve this by investing in evidence, solutions, cutting-edge technologies and cross-sectoral programmes and capacities, each aimed at addressing online child sexual exploitation, abuse and other digital harms.
$5 Million to Combat Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Safe Online Global Open Call for Proposals will invest in a safe internet globally, in line with the latest data and evidence from the field, technology developments and relevant frameworks addressing digital harms to children.
Safe Online will continue to invest in a ‘whole system’ approach for maximum impact by supporting the work across multiple sectors in a coordinated manner under all three of Safe Online’s investment pillars: Networks and Systems, Research and Data; and Technology Tools.
- Networks and Systems: strengthen systems, infrastructures and services across sectors and levels to enable effective action to prevent and respond to online CSEA and related harms to children.
- Research and Data: generate action-oriented research and data insights on children’s and young people’s experiences online, emerging threats and trends in the technology space and on what works to tackle these issues.
- Technology Tools: test and develop technology solutions that can feed into the wider ecosystem and support the whole system approach.
All legally registered organizations (for and non-profit) are eligible, with a focus on the Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, and West and Central Africa. The maximum project budget is $250,000 for private companies and for not-for-profit entities, including multi-lateral organisations, civil society organisations, NGOs, research institutes, think tanks, foundations, etc.
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As a moral rule, a mentally as well as physically sound future should be every child’s fundamental right — along with air, water, food and shelter — especially considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter.
Sexual or otherwise, early-life abuse left unhindered typically causes the brain to improperly develop. It can readily be the starting point of a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammatory stress hormones and chemicals, even in otherwise non-stressful daily routines.
It can amount to non-physical-impact brain-damage abuse: It has been described as an emotionally tumultuous daily existence, indeed a continuous discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’; for others [including me], it also includes being simultaneously scared of how badly they will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires.
The lasting emotional/psychological pain throughout one’s life from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one’s head, solitarily suffered. It can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is prescription and/or illicitly medicated.
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“It has been said that if child abuse and neglect were to disappear today, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual would shrink to the size of a pamphlet in two generations, and the prisons would empty. Or, as Bernie Siegel, MD, puts it, quite simply, after half a century of practicing medicine, ‘I have become convinced that our number-one public health problem is our childhood’.”
(Childhood Disrupted, pg.228)
The health of all children needs to be of real importance to everyone — and not just concern over what other parents’ children might or will cost us as future criminals or costly cases of government care, etcetera — regardless of how well our own developing children are doing.
Mindlessly ‘minding our own business’ often proves humanly devastating. Yet, largely owing to the Only If It’s In My Own Back Yard mindset, however, the prevailing collective attitude (implicit or subconscious) basically follows: ‘Why should I care — my kids are alright?’ or ‘What is in it for me, the taxpayer, if I support social programs for other people’s troubled families?’