Declaration of Rome

Every child’s life is unique, meaningful and precious, and every child has a right to dignity and safety. Yet today, global society is failing its children. Millions of children are being abused and exploited in tragic and unspeakable ways, and on an unprecedented scale all over the world.

On 6 October 2017 the attendees of the World Congress: Child Dignity in the Digital World presented the Declaration of Rome to Pope Francis.

The Declaration of Rome is a statement and call for action by child protection experts and the Catholic Church to governments, companies and faith leaders to step up and do much more to combat child sexual exploitation online.

The Declaration of Rome calls on “Leaders of technology companies to commit to the development and implementation of new tools and technologies to attack the proliferation of sex abuse images on the Internet, and to interdict the redistribution of the images of identified child victims.”

Read the full declaration, here.