This is why international cooperation is crucial and why commitments under the Global Alliance aim to improve victim identification, prosecute perpetrators more successfully, increase awareness and reduce the number of child sexual abuse images available online. (…)

On 5 December 2012, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström together with US Attorney General Eric Holder launched a Global Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Online (IP/12/1308 and MEMO/12/937).

From 48 countries initially, the Global Alliance currently consists of 54 countries: the 28 EU Member States, Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Georgia, Ghana, Israel, Japan, Kosovo, South Korea, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Serbia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and United States.