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Public datasets and sector reports show a concentration of reported CSAM in a handful of countries and regions: NCMEC’s CyberTipline received tens of millions of platform reports in recent years, with...
Viewing, downloading and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) trigger different legal exposures across jurisdictions: production and distribution are treated as the most serious offenses wi...
There is no single, up‑to‑date global list in the provided reporting that names every country that lacks specific laws criminalizing possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM); major reviews sho...
China’s statutory minimum age at which a person may legally consent to sexual activity is 14 years old; sexual activity with anyone under 14 is treated as a criminal offense regardless of asserted con...
Laws on possession of pornographic material by minors, and penalties for adults who possess child sexual images, vary widely: many countries criminalize production, distribution and possession of chil...
National laws diverge sharply on where child sexual abuse material (CSAM) begins and where lawful—but sexualized—images of minors end: differences show up in who counts as a “child,” how “sexually exp...
Most available reporting points to the United States and several large European countries as the places that report the highest raw numbers of missing children each year, with Germany, France and pan‑...
Countries with permissive or few explicit porn restrictions nonetheless show wide variation in how they treat trafficking, non-consent, and child protection: legal definitions, criminalized acts and r...
Laws vary widely: some countries (notably the United States) explicitly distinguish and criminalize both possession and knowingly accessing or “accessing with intent to view” CSAM, while many other ju...
Vietnam’s law defines a “child” as a person under 16 years of age and treats a “minor” as under 18, while its statutory treatment of pornographic material is fragmented: general prohibitions on produc...
International collaboration combines cross-border investigations, shared forensic capacity, and harmonized policy to make dark‑web CSAM networks prosecutable and to remove material—but these efforts a...
A small but growing set of jurisdictions explicitly criminalize knowingly or intentionally accessing/viewing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with the European Union’s 2011 Directive requiring memb...
Across jurisdictions the mental element for CSAM offences ranges from the plain criminal standard “knowingly” to broader tests that treat what a person “knows, has reason to know, or should reasonably...
Producing or distributing pornographic content involving persons legally defined as children typically triggers severe criminal consequences—imprisonment, fines, mandatory reporting and cross‑border c...
Global data compiled by the ICMEC-based report shows of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), while a smaller group of states focus their laws on production, distribution, or other technology-facilitate...