Advocacy
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Use your voice to advocate for a safer future. For everyone.
Call for Tech That Protects
Tell your MP: devices should be free from child abuse.
The UK is among the top three largest global consumers of livestreamed child sexual abuse (UK National Crime Agency). Sex offenders in the UK are fuelling demand for livestreamed child abuse, which is now the main form of commercial sexual exploitation of children.
This horrific abuse is happening on every day social media platforms, facilitated through devices like smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Write to your MP today to call for UK legislation to require all devices sold in the UK to include on-device safeguards that can block livestreamed child sexual abuse – stopping the abuse before it starts.Â
Featured Story
Meet Cassie, a survivor of online sexual exploitation and passionate advocate for an end to this crime.
Cassie was 12 when a family friend in the Philippines began abusing her. The abuse was livestreamed through a screen just like the one you're reading this on. Cassie suffered sexual abuse and violence for almost five years, until IJM partnered with police to bring her to safety.
Today, Cassie is passionate about protecting other children. Join Cassie in standing against the online sexual exploitation of children by inviting your MP to learn more about the problem of livestreamed child sexual abuse – and the technology that can stop it.
IJM's Advocacy and Impact
An estimated 5 billion people live without the protection of the law.
IJM UK’s Advocacy and Impact team works to bring the lessons learned by IJM to shape the UK’s response to modern slavery and violence.Â
If we are to effectively and sustainably end violence against the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities, we must first ensure that they can have confidence that the justice system will offer them protection.
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Our solution
In the face of this abuse, IJM and our partners protect people in poverty from violence.
We collaborate with local authorities to build communities where all people can expect to be safe and protected.
We are seeing evidence that IJM’s model works—that enforcing the law deters criminals and protects people from violence.
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86% reduction in child sex trafficking in places where we’ve worked in Angeles City and Mabalacat, Philippines.
(Child Sex Trafficking Report, Angeles City, 2016).
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72% reduction in availability of children for sexual exploitation in places where we’ve worked in Cambodia.
(Project Lantern, 2007.)
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75% reduction in child sex trafficking in Metro Manila, Philippines.
(Child Sex Trafficking Report, Metro Manila, 2016.)
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50% reduction in prevalence of land theft in Mukono Country, Uganda.
(An Endline Study, 2018.)
IJM Research and Independent Studies
We believe the children, families and communities we serve deserve the very best.
We owe it to them – and to those who make our work possible – to ensure that our work is effective. That’s why we base the design and management of our programs on evidence we collect through rigorous documentation, monitoring and evaluation.
