H.H. Lt. General Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the United Arab Emirates opening the High-Level Side-Event to the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly “Child Sexual Exploitation Online: The New Face of the Menace and How to Fight it with Artificial Intelligence”.

The Side-Event was also opened by H.E. Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the UAE to the United Nations and featured welcome remarks by the Director of UNICRI, Ms. Antonia Marie De Meo, and by the Assistant Secretary-General Fayaz King, Deputy Executive Director of Field Results and Innovation at UNICEF.

During the Side-Event, attended by approximately 400 participants, international experts provided an overview of trends and developments in child sexual exploitation online, spotlighting the key challenges investigators in law enforcement face in combatting child sexual exploitation, including the detrimental effects on their mental health and wellbeing, and describing how AI might be leveraged to turn the tide.