Global Threat Assessment Report 2021

In news- The We Protect Global Alliance has launched the Global Threat Assessment Report 2021 recently.

Key findings of the report-

As part of the report, a global study of childhood experiences of more than 5,000 young adults in the age group of 18-20 across 54 countries was completed by Economist Impact.
The findings show that in the past two years, the reporting of child sexual exploitation and online abuse has reached its highest level.
COVID-19 created a ‘perfect storm’ of conditions that fuelled a rise in child sexual exploitation and abuse (online) across the globe’.
The rise in child ‘self-generated’ sexual material is another trend that challenges the existing response, with the Internet Watch Foundation observing a 77% increase in child ‘self-generated’ sexual material from 2019 to 2020.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) reported that during the COVID-19 lockdown in India, there was a 95% rise in searches for child sexual abuse material.

We Protect Global Alliance-

It is a global movement of more than 200 governments, private sector companies and civil society organisations working together to transform the global response to child sexual exploitation and abuse online.
The Alliance relaunched in 2020 as an independent organisation and is the combination of two initiatives:
The European Commission and US Department of Justice’s Global Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Online; and
WePROTECT, established by the UK Government as a global multi-stakeholder response to combating online child sexual abuse.