Loredana Ceccacci: Expert of the Observatory for the fight against pedophilia and child pornography

The Observatory

The Observatory for the fight against pedophilia and child pornography:

o Established by law on February 2006o Aim: to acquire and to monitor data and

information related to the activities of all the public authorities to prevent and fight the phenomenon of child sexual abuse and exploitation

The Web Site of the Observatory

• 2010: beginning to work to the Web site

• Specific attention to the topic of sexual violence against children

• The objective is ambitious: the creation of a European Web Portal that will represent a point of reference for the topic of the prevention and fight of sexual violence against children

Objectives

• Informing professionals and citizens about the Observatory’s topics

• Training users on how to know, prevent and eliminate violence against children

• Involve professionals’ networks in order to:

o share and promote best practices against sexual abuse on children

o set a common virtual place where professionals can create documents, share experiences and communicate in real time on the topics

Core topics

• Sexual abuse against children• Sexual tourism• Sexual exploitation• Child pornography• Grooming on the internet

Correlated topics

• Physical abuse against children• Psychological abuse against children• Witnessed domestic violence• Bullying • Trafficking of children

The targets: civil society

• Children• Teenagers• Parents• Teachers, tutors, guardians and in general all people involved in the care of children

The targets: institutions, professionals, private sector

• International, national and regional stakeholders, politicians and legislators.

• Private sector (tourism, tour operators, internet providers, communication and information).

• National and local professionals who closely work with children, young people and their families and with communities.

• National human rights institutions • Academic world. • NGOs which work with families and

children.

Informing…how?

Information

• Innovative approach• Videos of the targets like teachers, children,

teenagers, psychologists, all professionals who closely work with children etc.)

Target’s videos

Target’s page

Information tools

• Articles• Videos• Updates information• News • Newsletter

Campaigns

• Promotion of national and international communication campaigns and events

• Contribution to the dissemination of the contents and the communicative tools

Campaigns

The web site of the Observatory will be linked with all the main social networks like Twitter, Facebook, in order for the information to be as widespread as possible.

Involving people

Community

• Creation of a virtual community of professionals• Crowdsourcing• Professionals from all Countries can contribute to

add and update information on the Web site.

Training..how?

Training

Alice’s journey8 / 12 years old16 hours - Registration

What emotions!!14/ 18 years old26 hours - Registration

How to use the social network 26 hours – Registration (for Teachers)

Learning how to handle relationship and emotions in the social network enviroment 20 hours – Registration (for Parents)

Kids, Teens Adults

Thank you

Contact details:

osservatoriopedofilia@governo.itTel. +39 06 6779 2437Fax +39 06 6779 2035