Defining the Who and What in OSAEC Prevention: SDRC Hosts Results Validation Workshop

A stakeholder consultation and feedback event involving the Justice and Care-supported study “Understanding Traffickers and Pathways to OSAEC Offending” was held at the Philippe Jones Lluillier Conference Room of Henry Sy, Sr. Hall on the afternoon of February 26, 2024. Hosted by SDRC, the event presented an analysis and recommendations to detect, deter and prevent the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children in the Philippines. Representatives from the International Justice Mission, the Inter-Agency Council against Trafficking, the Commission on Human Rights, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, the Nordic Liaison Office-Manila, and the Association of Remittance Company Compliance Officers were in attendance to provide their response to the study team’s presentation.

Principal investigator Maggie Brennan of the Dublin City University School of Psychology provided an overview of the study, which has sought to examine the different individual, familial, community, social, institutional, and technological factors that motivate OSAEC offenders to facilitate online sexual exploitation. Justice and Care International Systemic Change Director Nicole Munns and project team members Elaine Byrne (also from the DCU School of Psychology) and SDRC research fellows Melvin Jabar, Maria Caridad Tarroja and Zaldy Collado facilitated the breakout sessions, which discussed interventions that would help tackle this presentation of OSAEC facilitation in communities, and that would improve the experiences of child victims and/or reduce secondary victimization.

The Justice and Care “Understanding Traffickers and Pathways to OSAEC Offending” project is conducted by SDRC in partnership with DCU, the IJM, and the Center to End Online Sexual Exploitation of Children.