CEOP and Visa Europe in South East Europe

In 2010 CEOP in collaboration with Visa Europe are commencing a targeted capability building initiative in SE Europe. This initiative will seek to raise awareness of child sexual exploitation and build the capacity of the region to combat this crime, through a series of bespoke training events within Poland, Bulgaria and Romania in 2010.

Visa Europe is a founding partner of CEOP. Since 2006, Visa Europe has been providing financial support, intelligence and expertise to help identify criminals engaged in the sexual exploitation of children so that they can be brought to justice. Partnership with CEOP enables Visa Europe to play an active and important role in fighting child exploitation both in the UK and across Europe. This programme of capacity building work in South Eastern Europe is just one example of Visa Europe’s work in collaboration with CEOP’s International Child Protection Network.

Poland

The conference 'A Changing World: Young People and Risk in the Online Environment' was held on 17th June 2010 at the British Embassy in Warsaw. The conference was opened by the British Deputy Ambassador and Visa Europe and attended by educators, NGO's, private industry, law enforcement and judiciary. For more information see:

Press Release
Programme (English)
Programme (Polish)

Bulgaria

'A Changing World: Young People and Risk in the Online Environment' was also held on 16th September 2010 at the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior Academy in Sofia. This conference was opened by the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister, the British Ambassador and Visa Europe and attended by educators, NGO's, private industry, law enforcement and judiciary. For more information see:

Press Release
Programme (English)
Programme (Bulgarian)

Romania

A capacity building programme and a regional child protection conference covering issues relating to the risks that young people face online will be held from 22nd-25th November 2010. For more information about the conference on Thursday 25th November 2010 please see:

Programme (English)
Programme (Romanian)