Acknowledgements
This report was prepared pursuant to ECOSOC resolution 2011/33 on Prevention, protection and international cooperation
against the use of new information technologies to abuse and/or exploit children by Conference Support Section, Organized
Crime Branch, Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC, under the supervision of John Sandage (former Director, Division for
Treaty Affairs), Sara Greenblatt and Loide Lungameni (former and current Chief, Organized Crime Branch, respectively), and
Gillian Murray (former Chief, Conference Support Section).
Study team:
Steven Malby, Tejal Jesrani, Tania Bañuelos, Anika Holterhof, Magdalena Hahn (UNODC).
Consultant:
Kayla Bakshi
Experts:
The study greatly benefited from the inputs of the following expert practitioners in the fields of law enforcement, prosecution,
academia, the private sector and civil society:
Maria Teresa Aguirre, Paraguay
Anjan Bose, ECPAT International
John Carr, Online Child Safety Consultant
Carla Della Donne, Argentina
Guillermo Gallarza, International Center for Missing and
Exploited Children
Paul Gillespie, Kids’ Internet Safety Alliance (KINSA)
Jorge Luis San Lucas Gonzalez, Ecuador
Susie Hargreaves, Internet Watch Foundation
Apichart Hattasin, Thailand
Jenny Jones, GSMA
Lata Kallychurn, Mauritius
Carla Licciardello, International Telecommunications Union
(ITU)
Bjørn-Erik Ludvigsen, Norway
Nelly Montealegre, Mexico
Michael Moran, INTERPOL
Andrew Morling, United Kingdom
Omashani Naidoo, South Africa
Heila Niemand, South Africa
John Peacock, New Zealand
John Penn, Adobe
Cristian Perella, Facebook
Anders Persson, Sweden
Ethel Quayle, COPINE Project
Patrick Redling, Virtual Global Task Force
Jonathan Rouse, Australia
Seila Samleang, APLE Cambodia
Vanessa Fusco Simoes, Brazil
Hana Snajdrova, Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE)
Clara Sommarin, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Oran Sukkasem, Thailand
Joe Sullivan, Mentor Forensic Services
Daniel Szumilas, Germany
Janis Wolak, Crimes against Children Research Center
The Branch is also grateful for the input of UNODC staff members Margaret Akullo, Adam Palmer, Anna Giudice Saget and
Alexandra Souza Martins.
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