11th Conference on E-abuse of Children

SPLETNO OKO, Safer Internet Centre Slovenia, Criminal Police Directorate of the General Police Directorate and the Association of Informatics and Telecommunications at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia

organized the
 

11th Conference on E-abuse of Children,

which took place on Thursday, 23 September 2021, from 9 am to 3 pm (CET), via the Internet.
 

Every year, the conference is bringing together those who may encounter the issue of child sexual abuse in their work, particularly those working in law enforcement agencies, courts and non-governmental organisations, legislators, school counsellors, educators and social workers. The aim of the consultation is to increase knowledge about the issue of child sexual abuse online in order to enable better handling of these cases in practise. This year, more than 350 participants took part in the online conference, attending also from outside Slovenia.

In the introductory part of the conference the international prevention campaign Say no! was presented. The campaign is carried out by police officers from the countries of the Western Balkans. The campaign and the work done so far by all present in the prevention, detection and prosecution of child sexual exploitation was praised in the introductory speech by the Europol representative Cathal Delaney, who highlighted Europol's efforts to support all Member States. Further introductory speeches were given by Iztok Prezelj (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana), Nenad Šutanovac (ICT Association) and Vojko Urbas (Director of the Criminal Police Directorate, General Police Directorate). The speakers in the main part of the event presented their activities and best practices in the field of combating child sexual abuse on the Internet. This also included a roundtable discussion on the recently published handbook for professionals dealing with online violence and online abuse of children and adolescents.

CONFERENCE MATERIALS

All presentations from the conference with English interpretations are available on the Spletno oko Youtube channel.

The full agenda with summaries of the presentations is available here.

Links related to the content of the conference:

• Initiative to help the public investigate cases of child sexual abuse: Stop Child Abuse - Trace An Object
• Campaign  "Say no! - stop child abuse"
• "Say No" awareness raising video from 2017 

SPEAKERS

WELCOME ADDRESSES

• Iztok Prezelj, Vice-dean for research, UL FSS  
• Nenad Šutanovac, Director of ICT Association at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia
• Vojko Urbas, Director of the Criminal Police Directorate, General Police Directorate
• Cathal Delaney, Head of Team, Analysis Project Twins, EC3, at Europol

EVENT PROGRAM

• Presentation: International Cooperation of Law Enforcement in Investigations of Online Sexual Abuse of Children - Robert Tekavec, Head of Juvenile Crime Section, Criminal Police Direcorate.
   
• Round table: Handbook as an aid in cases of cyberbullying and abuse of children and adolescents - Marko Puschner, Safe.si, FDV UL; Irena Zemljič, Association of centres for social work; Robert Tekavec and Bojana Kračan, Criminal Police Directorate
   
• Presentation: Journey into the virtual world - Nina Jelen, Ivan Skvarča Primary School
   
• Presentation:  (Ir)responsible parents and the issue of privacy when posting recordings of their children online - Benjamin Lesjak, University of Primorska, DATAINFO.SI, d.o.o.
   
• Presentation: TOM Telefon - A look at the problems and hardships of young people in the time of coronavirus - Maša Blaznik, TOM Telefon

Conference organizers:

• Prof. dr. Vasja Vehovar, Head of the Safer Internet Centre, University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Vojko Urbas , Director of the Criminal Police Directorate of the General Police Directorate
• Nenad Šutanovac, director of the Association of Informatics and Telecommunications at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia

The event was made possible by: