The sexual exploitation of children on the Internet is a modern form of slavery in which children are abused, reduced to a commodity and bought and sold for profit.
The conditions of poverty, social inequality and dysfunctional families go to make up the scenario in which the sexual abuse and the exploitation of children can more easily manifest themselves. Such conditions raise children’s vulnerability across large parts of the world, depriving families of appropriate forms of protection and fostering a tolerance of situations of abuse and impunity for those who commit them.
Telefono Arcobaleno (‘The Rainbow Telephone’) fights to protect children from sexual exploitation and to combat the social, cultural, political and economic conditions that generate and nurture all forms of abuse and exploitation.
