NeDopusti = Don t Let it Happen! Presentation of a Social Project to Protect Children from Kidnapping and On-Line Exploitation

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1 Презентация проекта

2 NeDopusti = Don t Let it Happen! Presentation of a Social Project to Protect Children from Kidnapping and On-Line Exploitation

3 What is NeDopusti? A civil society project, launched in Russia in December 2008 by ROCIT and NGO Soprotivlenye Main aims: -To bring digital advantages into the process of combating child trafficking, child exploitation and child abduction; -To prevent illegal use of digital technologies for child abduction, trafficking and exploitation.

4 Development history elaboration and introduction of online services to report and takedown child sexual exploitation scenes; 2009 introduction of a group of services to combat violence against children and child exploitation 2011 introduction of services to combat child abduction and to support reporting and searching of missing and trafficked children; 2012 prototype of Russian National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children with the inclusion of services and tools on child trafficking\abduction and child exploitation (for victim identification, search and post-recovery rehabilitation)

5 NeDopusti! now Services, applications, practices and tools to provide help and protection for: -Missing, runaway and trafficked children and youth; -Victims of exploitation (slave labor, violence and sexual abuse) Single action point for: -Reporting; -Takedown of illegal content and activity online; -Consulting and recovery; -Technical tools and apps to facilitate report assessment process; -Awareness-raising and training; -Partnership and co-operation between LEA, experts, volunteers; -International co-operation

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7 Missing and trafficked children Services provided by NeDopusti! include: -Missing children database; -Reporting tool for missing children cases; -Swift alert tool (in partnership with online- and offline industry and civil society); -Training for civil volunteers and LEAs; -Awareness-raising, consulting; -Technical tools for report assessment, victim identification, field search coordination; -Link with ICMEC to prevent transnational trafficking

8 Missing child file - Brings together all information about missing child; - Provides updates on search process; - Reporting form requires providing personal data of reporter for LEA purposes; - Accessible from any website page

9 Some of the software tools and technologies Field search coordination tool for LEA and volunteers; Annual analyst trainings provided by INHOPE; Age progression technology (allows to update the image of a child missing more than two years to his present appearance) not practiced by anyone else in Russia except NeDopusti

10 Actions against child abuse and violence Awareness-raising (information and advices) online and offline: -Dissemination of information (articles, brochures, videos, etc.); -Popular events for children and youth, parents, teachers, social workers; -Trainings and lessons on public and online safety; Online consulting and rehabilitation (with participation in all- Russian ChildHelpLine); Taking anonymous reports about online content with child abuse and violence, assessing it and taking it down (Hotline)

11 Some awareness tools and events

12 Trainings and expert contribution Lessons and lectures for children and youth: -With youth lecturers (Youth Panel); -With adult educators (teachers, librarians, social workers) Trainings and capacity-building programs: -For law enforcement; -For educators; -For child rehabilitation specialists Expert consolidation: -Working groups; -Public events and roundtables; -Expert support of routine operations (awareness-raising, assessment of illegal content, training programs, new initiatives)

13 Online safety Acting as Safer Internet Centre for Russia since 2008: - Awareness-raising about digital threats; - Hotline for report and takedown of illegal content; - Helpline; - Youth Panel; - Membership in Insafe European Safer Internet Network under EC CEF Telecom Programme (the only country not being the EU\EEA member or candidate) - Access to ICCAM INHOPE\Interpol international database for CSAM takedown - Regular events and campaigns, uniting industry, decision-makers and society - Besides CSAM and grooming, works on such threats as racism\nationalism\xenophobia, propaganda of terrorism, propaganda and distribution of narcotics, hate speech and cyberbullying - Experience exchange in Europe and CIS

14 Support provided to: Government (Council of Federation, State Duma, Ministry of Education and Science, Child Ombudsman of Russia) Law enforcement (Ministry of Interior (police), Investigation Committee, National Bureau of Interpol) Internet-industry (Russian Association for Electronic Communications, Microsoft, Google, BeeLine, Sputnik, MTS, Kaspersky Lab) Educators and social sphere (Russian School Libraries Association, The Russian Children in Need Fund, National Fund for Child Protection from Violence, OZON Centre, nearly 20 social NGOs)

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16 International cooperation Partnership and license agreements with NCMEC and ICMEC; Membership in GMCN Global Missing Children s Network; Membership in INHOPE International Association of Hotlines taking down illegal content (since 2009, allows to take down child abuse content hosted abroad) Membership in Insafe European Network of Safer Internet Centres (experience exchange on awareness-raising and rehabilitation) Official organizers of International Missing Children s Day and Safer Internet Day for Russia

17 International agreements

18 International Missing Children s Day Held annually on 25 May as ICMEC initiative; In 2016 events held in about 30 countries; Russia first joined IMCD in 2012 due to NeDopusti project initiative

19 Global Missing Children s Network GMCN is a network of nodes from different countries exchanging information about missing children for their effective search 23 nodes present including UK, Belgium, Romania, Poland, Australia, South Korea, Mexico, etc. Russia (NeDopusti) joined GMCN in 2012 Industry-supported (grants from Motorola, etc.) Nodes run national databases with missing children, aid LEAs in searching kids, disseminate information, take down child abuse content, run databases of such content, coordinate volunteers

20 At Present: All-Russian database of missing children; More than websites and pages with illegal content closed; Helpline processed queries; International cooperation on CSAM takedown and information exchange on trafficked children; Awareness-raising events, including countrywide-known Safer Internet Day and International Missing Children Day; Official prototype of Russian National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children under National Child Welfare Strategy; Partnership with civil society volunteers covering almost all territory of Russia

21 Thanks for your attention! Questions? Mark Tverdynin, ROCIT Chairman of Board