20–24 | World Economic Forum, Davos
30 | Partner2Connect Annual Meeting, ITU, Geneva
Jan-March | Winter Seminar Series, Stanford Cyber Policy Centre
4 | 2KNOW Final Conference: From Knowledge to Action – Advancing Strategies to End Online Sexual Violence Against Children
11 | Safer Internet Day
10-11 | Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, France
11-13 | Deadline for EU consultation for planned extension of derogation to the ePrivacy Directive
12–14 | World Government Summit 2025, Dubai
13–15 | World Global NCD Alliance Forum – 4th Global NCD Alliance Forum, Rwanda
24-27 | Rights Con, Taiwan
3-6 | MWC25 Barcelona, Spain
4-6 | 44th Lanzarote Committee, France
8 | International’s Women’s Day
1-3 | FORUM INCYBER EUROPE, Lille France
1-4 | SKOLL World Forum, Oxford UK
4-6 | African Children’s Summit, Johannesburg , South Africa
8-10 | Global Age Assurance Standards Summit, Amsterdam
23 | ITU Regional Development Forum Commonwealth of Independent States (RDF-CIS) 2025 , Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
27-30 | Web Summit, Rio
5-7 | NatCon25, Philadelphia, USA
7-8 | UN 10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, Innovation 4 SDGs (STI Forum), New York, USA
13-19 |Mental Health Awareness Week 2025, Global
17 | WTISD 2025
19-21 | IPPPRI, London, UK
19-25 | 78th WHO World Health Assembly , Geneva
16 | Day of the African Child
TBD | Childlight CSA researcher event
TBD | Trust and Safety (California)
11-12 | Global Digital Development Forum
9-13 | WWDC
17-18 | FORUM INCYBER – USA
17-27 | ITU Council 2025
23-27 | Internet Governance Forum 2025
24-26 | Child helpline international consultation – Global Voice for Mental Health, Violence Prevention and Response
30th June-3rd July |4th International Conference on Financing for Development | Financing for Sustainable Development Office
1 | Lanzarote Conference Ministers
TBD | 45th meeting of the Lanzarote Committee
7-11 |World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High-Level Event 2025
8-11 | Summit 25 – AI for Good
14-23 | UN High-Level Political Forum 2025
21-23 | 4th Annual TrustCon
22-24 | Smart Africa Summit
1-4 | Global Symposium for Regulators 2025
9-11 | Int Conference on Children Rights, Stellenbosh, South Africa
9-23 | 80th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 80)
9-11 | Int Conference on Children Rights, Stellenbosch, South Africa
9-23 | Fourth High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of NCDs
17-19 | International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference
Our grantees INTERPOL (Global) The Devops Group Project Countries involved:France INTERPOL will bring the most advanced technology to investigators of online CSEA through its new DevOps Group Project. The initiative will facilitate research and development by an expert group of investigators, non-governmental organisations, academia, and information technology companies, and extend solutions
Our grantees UNICEF Namibia Tackling Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Namibia Countries involved:Namibia In Namibia, the Fund helped UNICEF Namibia establish an online reporting portal, which now provides the public with a way to anonymously report cases of online child sexual exploitation and abuse. This project has also educated teachers,
Our grantees UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti (Disrupting Harm) Evidence From 14 Countries on the Context, Threats, and Children’s Perspectives of Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. Countries involved:Italy Disrupting Harm is a large-scale data collection and research project to better understand online child sexual exploitation and abuse across
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