Key Publications
Key Publications
The following reports and publications are links to key documents in relation to the prevention of child sexual abuse globally. The list is not exhaustive and will be added to periodically.
Nature and scale of problem
Terminology and definitions
Relevant conventions
Responding to child sexual abuse
Prevention of child sexual abuse
UNICEF - Preventing and Responding 2015
UNICEF - Promising Programmes 2020
WHO - Preventing Child Maltreatment Guide 2006
Together for Girls - Technical Resources 2016
Save the Children - Child Protection Systems in Africa 2011
UNODC - Tool for Elimination of Violence against Children 2015
NSPCC - Public Health Challenge Review 2011
NCBI - The Need for a Comprehensive Public Health Approach to Preventing Child Sexual Abuse 2014
ATSA - Sexual Abuse as a Public Health Problem 2011
Monitoring and evaluation
Child on Europe - Child Abuse Guidelines 2009
MEASURE - Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators 2008
Examples of local strategic responses
UNICEF - Violence Against Children in Tanzania 2011
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse - Action Research Intervention Model 2014
UNICEF - Promising Programmes 2015
NSPCC - Preventing Child Sexual Abuse 2015
Sexual abuse in conflict-affected settings
RHRC - Gender-Based Violence Tools 2004
Save the Children - Gender-Based Violence Tools 2004
Child Trafficking
UNICEF - Guidelines on the Protection of Victims 2006
UNODC - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018
Transnational sex offending
Online harm
We Protect - Model National Response 2016
Youth sexual violence
NSPCC - Harmful Sexual Behaviour Framework 2019
