Leading a coalition of charities, experts and survivors with 44 signatories, CEASE has today sent a letter to the Prime Minister calling for amendments to the Online Safety Bill to ensure the law’s timeliness, effectiveness and workability. We welcome the…
From Vanessa Morse, CEO: Today’s announcement by the Government that the forthcoming Online Safety Bill will require all online platforms hosting pornography to install age verification measures is both extremely welcome and long overdue. The pornography industry got away with giving…
The 18th October marks Anti-Slavery Day, a day to commemorate the passing into law of the Anti-Slavery Day Act 2010. Anti-Slavery Day is held in the UK to raise awareness of the need to eradicate all forms of slavery, human…
We have officially responded to the government’s Call To Evidence with reference to the Online Safety Bill. The Call for Evidence we have completed is a response to an invitation put out by the joint pre-legislative scrutiny Committee on the…
We’re reaching out to MPs urging them to call on the government to hold the online porn industry, known as Big Porn, to account. Big Porn profits and facilitates sexual exploitation yet it remains unregulated. The commercial online porn industry’s…
Unless linked otherwise, all data can be found in our paper, which can be read for free HERE Last week we published our new law reform policy paper, In Defence of Abolition: A Human Rights Law Critique of the Global…
Over the last 2 years, we’ve been contacted by many law students from across the UK telling us they want to get involved with CEASE. They’ve been at different stages and on different legal pathways, but they’ve all been passionate…
This past week has seen another lawsuit filed against Pornhub and its parent company Mindgeek. It’s another nail in the coffin of a company – and wider industry – that has been found to have hosted, and profited from, videos…
We are very pleased to publish our new extensive comparative law report on why the United Kingdom must introduce the “abolitionist model” of prostitution law reform, available to read for free HERE. This new report offers a comprehensive insight into…
Today sees the launch of our Crowdfunder threatening legal action against the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to take action or even investigate the misuse of children’s personal data by pornography sites. As our CEO Vanessa Morse states on…