Zoé Colpaert
@zcolpaert.bsky.social
💼 Regional Program Manager - Europe at ICMEC https://www.icmec.org/
🌈 Fighting against child sexual abuse, exploitation & trafficking & supporting the recovery of missing kids in 🇪🇺 & 🌍
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland
Views are my own
🌈 Fighting against child sexual abuse, exploitation & trafficking & supporting the recovery of missing kids in 🇪🇺 & 🌍
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland
Views are my own
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Zoé Colpaert
@zcolpaert.bsky.social
· Mar 7
Hi! I'm new here.
I'll talk about my work at the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), an international NGO working so that every child can grow up safe from exploitation, sexual abuse, or risk of going missing.
Looking forward to connecting 👋
I'll talk about my work at the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), an international NGO working so that every child can grow up safe from exploitation, sexual abuse, or risk of going missing.
Looking forward to connecting 👋
🚀 We've achieved so much this year!
💫 As we're entering the last month of 2025, it's nice to reflect on all the work we've done so far at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Check out our highlights below 👇
💫 As we're entering the last month of 2025, it's nice to reflect on all the work we've done so far at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Check out our highlights below 👇
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🚀 We've achieved so much this year!
💫 As we're entering the last month of 2025, it's nice to reflect on all the work we've done so far at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Check out our highlights below 👇
💫 As we're entering the last month of 2025, it's nice to reflect on all the work we've done so far at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children. Check out our highlights below 👇
🤝It has been a pleasure to work with knowledgeable & dedicated partners on the Multisectoral Response & Capacity (MRC) Assessment for #Morocco!
🇲🇦The 1st draft was presented in Rabat & we continue working with the CMRPI, the @coe.int & key stakeholders to launch the final MRC soon.
🇲🇦The 1st draft was presented in Rabat & we continue working with the CMRPI, the @coe.int & key stakeholders to launch the final MRC soon.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@chi-amsterdam.bsky.social published their global data collection tool. Take a look to understand who contacts child helplines, and why: childhelplineinternational.org/research-and...
#Helpline #ChildProtection #CapacityBuilding
#Helpline #ChildProtection #CapacityBuilding
Research and Child Helpline Data - Child Helpline International
Explore global child helpline data and research: trends, key issues, user profiles and impact insights from Child Helpline International.
childhelplineinternational.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@chi-amsterdam.bsky.social published their global data collection tool. Take a look to understand who contacts child helplines, and why: childhelplineinternational.org/research-and...
#Helpline #ChildProtection #CapacityBuilding
#Helpline #ChildProtection #CapacityBuilding
📣 New report on male survivors of child abuse, published by @protect-children.bsky.social
www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en/post/our-...
Wow, this is such an important study.
Huge congrats to Protect Children and the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI) for this work.
www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en/post/our-...
Wow, this is such an important study.
Huge congrats to Protect Children and the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI) for this work.
Our Voice Male Survivors: Experiences of Victims and Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
Child sexual abuse affects an estimated 1 in 7 boys, yet their experiences are often overlooked. This report amplifies the voices of 1,431 male survivors from the Global Our Voice Survivor Survey, rev...
www.suojellaanlapsia.fi
October 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📣 New report on male survivors of child abuse, published by @protect-children.bsky.social
www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en/post/our-...
Wow, this is such an important study.
Huge congrats to Protect Children and the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI) for this work.
www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en/post/our-...
Wow, this is such an important study.
Huge congrats to Protect Children and the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI) for this work.
🤖AI & Child Safety: Takeaways from the 🇫🇷 Roundtable
🇫🇷We discussed the challenges raised by #GenerativeAI on #ChildSafety in #France amongst FR & 🌍 experts. GenAI is reshaping the landscape of online child safety, presenting complex challenges to police & tech companies.
🇫🇷We discussed the challenges raised by #GenerativeAI on #ChildSafety in #France amongst FR & 🌍 experts. GenAI is reshaping the landscape of online child safety, presenting complex challenges to police & tech companies.
September 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🤖AI & Child Safety: Takeaways from the 🇫🇷 Roundtable
🇫🇷We discussed the challenges raised by #GenerativeAI on #ChildSafety in #France amongst FR & 🌍 experts. GenAI is reshaping the landscape of online child safety, presenting complex challenges to police & tech companies.
🇫🇷We discussed the challenges raised by #GenerativeAI on #ChildSafety in #France amongst FR & 🌍 experts. GenAI is reshaping the landscape of online child safety, presenting complex challenges to police & tech companies.
🤝Sharing & learning from & with great professionals
🧑💻I virtually joined the ImpleMéndez (COST Action CA22128) meeting taking place in Vilnius 🇱🇹 ahead of the #EAPL2025. It was great to hear about colleagues' work to build child interview capacity for actors working on child abuse investigations.
👇
🧑💻I virtually joined the ImpleMéndez (COST Action CA22128) meeting taking place in Vilnius 🇱🇹 ahead of the #EAPL2025. It was great to hear about colleagues' work to build child interview capacity for actors working on child abuse investigations.
👇
August 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🤝Sharing & learning from & with great professionals
🧑💻I virtually joined the ImpleMéndez (COST Action CA22128) meeting taking place in Vilnius 🇱🇹 ahead of the #EAPL2025. It was great to hear about colleagues' work to build child interview capacity for actors working on child abuse investigations.
👇
🧑💻I virtually joined the ImpleMéndez (COST Action CA22128) meeting taking place in Vilnius 🇱🇹 ahead of the #EAPL2025. It was great to hear about colleagues' work to build child interview capacity for actors working on child abuse investigations.
👇
🤝 Bridging fields to better protect children
🎙️ Honoured to have been the Keynote at the BEiNG-WISE Technical Meeting at the University of Calabria, 🇮🇹. I presented our work at ICMEC combating child abuse & recovering missing kids, & how tech can increase risks but also make children safer.
🎙️ Honoured to have been the Keynote at the BEiNG-WISE Technical Meeting at the University of Calabria, 🇮🇹. I presented our work at ICMEC combating child abuse & recovering missing kids, & how tech can increase risks but also make children safer.
July 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🤝 Bridging fields to better protect children
🎙️ Honoured to have been the Keynote at the BEiNG-WISE Technical Meeting at the University of Calabria, 🇮🇹. I presented our work at ICMEC combating child abuse & recovering missing kids, & how tech can increase risks but also make children safer.
🎙️ Honoured to have been the Keynote at the BEiNG-WISE Technical Meeting at the University of Calabria, 🇮🇹. I presented our work at ICMEC combating child abuse & recovering missing kids, & how tech can increase risks but also make children safer.
🎂 Celebrating 35 years of supporting victims
🇵🇹 Last month, I joined the Victim Support Europe Annual Conference in Lisbon, #Portugal. The conference celebrated 35 years of victim support in Europe & the anniversaries of VSE and of APAV, who organised a wonderful event.
👇
🇵🇹 Last month, I joined the Victim Support Europe Annual Conference in Lisbon, #Portugal. The conference celebrated 35 years of victim support in Europe & the anniversaries of VSE and of APAV, who organised a wonderful event.
👇
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🎂 Celebrating 35 years of supporting victims
🇵🇹 Last month, I joined the Victim Support Europe Annual Conference in Lisbon, #Portugal. The conference celebrated 35 years of victim support in Europe & the anniversaries of VSE and of APAV, who organised a wonderful event.
👇
🇵🇹 Last month, I joined the Victim Support Europe Annual Conference in Lisbon, #Portugal. The conference celebrated 35 years of victim support in Europe & the anniversaries of VSE and of APAV, who organised a wonderful event.
👇
Short but powerful article from #BBCScotland, about the important work of Victim Identification officers at @policescotland.bsky.social.
"The police job that is beyond the stuff of nightmares"
bbc.com/news/article...
"The police job that is beyond the stuff of nightmares"
bbc.com/news/article...
The police job that is beyond the stuff of nightmares
David Murray is a victim identification officer who examines images and footage to find children who've been sexually abused.
bbc.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Short but powerful article from #BBCScotland, about the important work of Victim Identification officers at @policescotland.bsky.social.
"The police job that is beyond the stuff of nightmares"
bbc.com/news/article...
"The police job that is beyond the stuff of nightmares"
bbc.com/news/article...
🍃 Reflecting on ALUNA & looking ahead to new projects
📖 It's hard to believe it, but last week marked the end of the
ALUNA Project with a fantastic closing event at the
Universidad Complutense in Madrid.
👇
📖 It's hard to believe it, but last week marked the end of the
ALUNA Project with a fantastic closing event at the
Universidad Complutense in Madrid.
👇
June 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🍃 Reflecting on ALUNA & looking ahead to new projects
📖 It's hard to believe it, but last week marked the end of the
ALUNA Project with a fantastic closing event at the
Universidad Complutense in Madrid.
👇
📖 It's hard to believe it, but last week marked the end of the
ALUNA Project with a fantastic closing event at the
Universidad Complutense in Madrid.
👇
Delighted to attend the Victim Support Europe Annual Conference & representing ICMEC in the beautiful Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon 🇵🇹
Tomorrow, I will be talking about how #AI can be used to better support victims & survivors.
Join online! 2025.vse-conference.eu/registration/
#VSEAC2025
Tomorrow, I will be talking about how #AI can be used to better support victims & survivors.
Join online! 2025.vse-conference.eu/registration/
#VSEAC2025
May 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Delighted to attend the Victim Support Europe Annual Conference & representing ICMEC in the beautiful Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon 🇵🇹
Tomorrow, I will be talking about how #AI can be used to better support victims & survivors.
Join online! 2025.vse-conference.eu/registration/
#VSEAC2025
Tomorrow, I will be talking about how #AI can be used to better support victims & survivors.
Join online! 2025.vse-conference.eu/registration/
#VSEAC2025
💸 Violence against children results in many harms, including financial. A substantiated call for earlier investment to better prevent and end violence against children by the UN SRSG on Violence against Children:
violenceagainstchildren.un.org/sites/violen...
violenceagainstchildren.un.org/sites/violen...
violenceagainstchildren.un.org
May 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
💸 Violence against children results in many harms, including financial. A substantiated call for earlier investment to better prevent and end violence against children by the UN SRSG on Violence against Children:
violenceagainstchildren.un.org/sites/violen...
violenceagainstchildren.un.org/sites/violen...
"[...]unlike traditional CSAM, which involves the direct abuse of a real child, AI-generated material can be created without physical contact—yet its impact is still devastating."
@lseblogs.bsky.social
👉"The intersection of AI and CSAM: a reflection on the UK’s OSA" blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
@lseblogs.bsky.social
👉"The intersection of AI and CSAM: a reflection on the UK’s OSA" blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"[...]unlike traditional CSAM, which involves the direct abuse of a real child, AI-generated material can be created without physical contact—yet its impact is still devastating."
@lseblogs.bsky.social
👉"The intersection of AI and CSAM: a reflection on the UK’s OSA" blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
@lseblogs.bsky.social
👉"The intersection of AI and CSAM: a reflection on the UK’s OSA" blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
📣 New course for police & justice professionals!
✍️ As part of the ALUNA project, myself & the ICMEC team have been hard at work to deliver a specialised course for law enforcement and justice professionals.
👇
✍️ As part of the ALUNA project, myself & the ICMEC team have been hard at work to deliver a specialised course for law enforcement and justice professionals.
👇
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
📣 New course for police & justice professionals!
✍️ As part of the ALUNA project, myself & the ICMEC team have been hard at work to deliver a specialised course for law enforcement and justice professionals.
👇
✍️ As part of the ALUNA project, myself & the ICMEC team have been hard at work to deliver a specialised course for law enforcement and justice professionals.
👇
Reposted by Zoé Colpaert
🚨 Safe Online boosts our 2024 Open Call with an additional $5M—bringing total funding to nearly $10M for impactful projects tackling digital harms to children.
Learn more: loom.ly/fgYF860
Learn more: loom.ly/fgYF860
April 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🚨 Safe Online boosts our 2024 Open Call with an additional $5M—bringing total funding to nearly $10M for impactful projects tackling digital harms to children.
Learn more: loom.ly/fgYF860
Learn more: loom.ly/fgYF860
🇵🇹Continuing to work with Portuguese partners, from afar
✍️Last week, I chaired a Roundtable focused on understanding, preventing, and responding to grooming in #Portugal.
✍️Last week, I chaired a Roundtable focused on understanding, preventing, and responding to grooming in #Portugal.
April 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🇵🇹Continuing to work with Portuguese partners, from afar
✍️Last week, I chaired a Roundtable focused on understanding, preventing, and responding to grooming in #Portugal.
✍️Last week, I chaired a Roundtable focused on understanding, preventing, and responding to grooming in #Portugal.
📣Roundtable on Understanding, Preventing & Responding to Online Sexual Grooming of Children & Young People in #Portugal
🗓️16.04.25
⏰17h WET
💬Portuguese & English
🔗Join for free: icmec.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#ChildProtection #OnlineSafety
@titodemorais.bsky.social @quebrar-o-silencio.bsky.social
🗓️16.04.25
⏰17h WET
💬Portuguese & English
🔗Join for free: icmec.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#ChildProtection #OnlineSafety
@titodemorais.bsky.social @quebrar-o-silencio.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📣Roundtable on Understanding, Preventing & Responding to Online Sexual Grooming of Children & Young People in #Portugal
🗓️16.04.25
⏰17h WET
💬Portuguese & English
🔗Join for free: icmec.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#ChildProtection #OnlineSafety
@titodemorais.bsky.social @quebrar-o-silencio.bsky.social
🗓️16.04.25
⏰17h WET
💬Portuguese & English
🔗Join for free: icmec.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#ChildProtection #OnlineSafety
@titodemorais.bsky.social @quebrar-o-silencio.bsky.social
Bumping this up: check the @ec.europa.eu's 5th report on the progress made in combatting Trafficking in Human Beings 👇
✍️ Child trafficking represents 19% of all victims of trafficking in the EU, with a small decline of 3% from the previous period.
home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/new-pro...
✍️ Child trafficking represents 19% of all victims of trafficking in the EU, with a small decline of 3% from the previous period.
home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/new-pro...
New Progress report on combatting Trafficking in Human Beings
The European Commission published its fifth report on the progress made in the EU in combatting Trafficking in Human Beings. The report outlines the main anti-trafficking actions from 2021 to 2024 and...
home-affairs.ec.europa.eu
April 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Bumping this up: check the @ec.europa.eu's 5th report on the progress made in combatting Trafficking in Human Beings 👇
✍️ Child trafficking represents 19% of all victims of trafficking in the EU, with a small decline of 3% from the previous period.
home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/new-pro...
✍️ Child trafficking represents 19% of all victims of trafficking in the EU, with a small decline of 3% from the previous period.
home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/new-pro...
⚙️ ALUNA Tools Training & Pilot kick-off
🇪🇸 Last week I joined the ALUNA Pilot joined project partners & international police to test the investigative & prevention tools developed in the project. They shared feedback to improve the tools, so that they can better fight against child sexual abuse.
🇪🇸 Last week I joined the ALUNA Pilot joined project partners & international police to test the investigative & prevention tools developed in the project. They shared feedback to improve the tools, so that they can better fight against child sexual abuse.
March 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
⚙️ ALUNA Tools Training & Pilot kick-off
🇪🇸 Last week I joined the ALUNA Pilot joined project partners & international police to test the investigative & prevention tools developed in the project. They shared feedback to improve the tools, so that they can better fight against child sexual abuse.
🇪🇸 Last week I joined the ALUNA Pilot joined project partners & international police to test the investigative & prevention tools developed in the project. They shared feedback to improve the tools, so that they can better fight against child sexual abuse.
Reposted by Zoé Colpaert
We screened ‘Flow’ (player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/flow) a film about the barriers for adults disclosing #CSA, discussed the positive change it has contributed to around the world and the wonderful work these organisations do. @michaelamrogers.bsky.social chaired from @shivarnetwork.bsky.social 2/2
Flow | The University of Sheffield Player
Film, inspired by interviews with victims/survivors, explores the power of storytelling to spark debate about how we hinder the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse.
player.sheffield.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
We screened ‘Flow’ (player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/flow) a film about the barriers for adults disclosing #CSA, discussed the positive change it has contributed to around the world and the wonderful work these organisations do. @michaelamrogers.bsky.social chaired from @shivarnetwork.bsky.social 2/2
A pleasure to participate in this initiative & present what we do at ICMEC to better prevent child sexual abuse.
If you haven't seen Flow, please take 20min to do so - it's🔑 to raise awareness on the effects of child abuse (even years after) & how you can support survivors.
TY @drcisme.bsky.social!
If you haven't seen Flow, please take 20min to do so - it's🔑 to raise awareness on the effects of child abuse (even years after) & how you can support survivors.
TY @drcisme.bsky.social!
Watch ‘Flow and Change’ part of the Arts for the Future Festival (curated by @lisarussellfilm.bsky.social). Hear from me, director Chris Godwin, @zcolpaert.bsky.social from ICMEC, Taura Edgar from Talk Hong Kong and Piji Protopsaltis from The Smile of the Child.1/2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQd...
Flow and Change
YouTube video by Prof Parveen Ali
www.youtube.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A pleasure to participate in this initiative & present what we do at ICMEC to better prevent child sexual abuse.
If you haven't seen Flow, please take 20min to do so - it's🔑 to raise awareness on the effects of child abuse (even years after) & how you can support survivors.
TY @drcisme.bsky.social!
If you haven't seen Flow, please take 20min to do so - it's🔑 to raise awareness on the effects of child abuse (even years after) & how you can support survivors.
TY @drcisme.bsky.social!
✍️Learning from ≠ fields
💡On 6/03, I chaired a fascinating webinar on "Torture-Tainted Evidence: Theory, Investigation & Litigation". Human Rights Attorney @alkapradhan.bsky.social's fascinating presentation shared legal, criminology & psychology insights & real world impacts of #torture in #trials.
💡On 6/03, I chaired a fascinating webinar on "Torture-Tainted Evidence: Theory, Investigation & Litigation". Human Rights Attorney @alkapradhan.bsky.social's fascinating presentation shared legal, criminology & psychology insights & real world impacts of #torture in #trials.
March 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
✍️Learning from ≠ fields
💡On 6/03, I chaired a fascinating webinar on "Torture-Tainted Evidence: Theory, Investigation & Litigation". Human Rights Attorney @alkapradhan.bsky.social's fascinating presentation shared legal, criminology & psychology insights & real world impacts of #torture in #trials.
💡On 6/03, I chaired a fascinating webinar on "Torture-Tainted Evidence: Theory, Investigation & Litigation". Human Rights Attorney @alkapradhan.bsky.social's fascinating presentation shared legal, criminology & psychology insights & real world impacts of #torture in #trials.
👋Hi! Happy to be here. A bit about myself:
☺️My name is Zoé, I'm French & been living abroad since I moved to the UK to study.
✍️I have a master’s degree in Near & Middle Eastern Studies from @soasuni.bsky.social & a UG degree in Politics & International Studies from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.
👇
☺️My name is Zoé, I'm French & been living abroad since I moved to the UK to study.
✍️I have a master’s degree in Near & Middle Eastern Studies from @soasuni.bsky.social & a UG degree in Politics & International Studies from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.
👇
March 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
👋Hi! Happy to be here. A bit about myself:
☺️My name is Zoé, I'm French & been living abroad since I moved to the UK to study.
✍️I have a master’s degree in Near & Middle Eastern Studies from @soasuni.bsky.social & a UG degree in Politics & International Studies from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.
👇
☺️My name is Zoé, I'm French & been living abroad since I moved to the UK to study.
✍️I have a master’s degree in Near & Middle Eastern Studies from @soasuni.bsky.social & a UG degree in Politics & International Studies from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social.
👇
💭Mental health, collaboration & crimes against children investigations
🇵🇹I was delighted to go back to Lisbon to engage with investigators, analysts & helpline professionals who work on child abuse cases & support victims. But are THEY supported enough on the impact their work has on them?
👇
🇵🇹I was delighted to go back to Lisbon to engage with investigators, analysts & helpline professionals who work on child abuse cases & support victims. But are THEY supported enough on the impact their work has on them?
👇
March 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
💭Mental health, collaboration & crimes against children investigations
🇵🇹I was delighted to go back to Lisbon to engage with investigators, analysts & helpline professionals who work on child abuse cases & support victims. But are THEY supported enough on the impact their work has on them?
👇
🇵🇹I was delighted to go back to Lisbon to engage with investigators, analysts & helpline professionals who work on child abuse cases & support victims. But are THEY supported enough on the impact their work has on them?
👇
Hi! I'm new here.
I'll talk about my work at the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), an international NGO working so that every child can grow up safe from exploitation, sexual abuse, or risk of going missing.
Looking forward to connecting 👋
I'll talk about my work at the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), an international NGO working so that every child can grow up safe from exploitation, sexual abuse, or risk of going missing.
Looking forward to connecting 👋
March 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Hi! I'm new here.
I'll talk about my work at the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), an international NGO working so that every child can grow up safe from exploitation, sexual abuse, or risk of going missing.
Looking forward to connecting 👋
I'll talk about my work at the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), an international NGO working so that every child can grow up safe from exploitation, sexual abuse, or risk of going missing.
Looking forward to connecting 👋