The Protect Project ‘Child Abuse Prevention’ training will be hosted by Beşziktaş Municipality in partnership with Goldsmiths University of London from March 28 to April 1, 2022. “Protect” is a “KA2 YOUTH Strategic Partnership” project that aims to develop innovative educational tools that Youth Workers and young people can use to protect themselves from,…
The sexual abuse of children and adolescents by adults is nowadays highly publicised and rightly arouses social opposition, as well as the need to protect minors. Paedophilic acts are like a stone thrown into the water, and the circle of consequences spreads widely in many areas (personal, social, psychological, therapeutic and legal). The harm of…
Lucy Gray and Ricky Hyde (students on the BA Applied Social Science, Community Development and Youth Work at Goldsmiths University in London) reflect on their experience of attending our first training event for youth workers. The event was facilitated by our Cypriot and Polish partners and focused on child sexual exploitation and the related and…
Child Sexual Exploitation is the use or the condoning of a child as a sexual object to meet the sexual needs/desires of an adult. Although it has been 31 years since the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and 26 years since it got through the parliament, the contractual principles…
According to the law in Cyprus, Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) involves engaging in sexual activities with a child who has not reached the legal age of 18 years for these activities and where coercion, force, or threats are used, or the offender is in a position of trust or the child is in a vulnerable…
