By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs The Online Safety Bill has received Royal Assent. This Act is a once in a generation opportunity to regulate the pornography industry and protect children from the devastating harms of pornography. …
BY GEMMA KELLY, HEAD OF POLICY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, CEASE As Head of Policy and Public Affairs at CEASE, my job requires me to undertake some unusual tasks, and it was with this thought at the back of my mind…
By Naomi Miles, Chair of Trustees, CEASE In 2015, the Tory Manifesto promised to protect children from stumbling across hardcore pornography online. Yet seven years on nothing has really changed. Without age verification measures, any child with an online device…
By Gemma Kelly, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, CEASE As an Irish citizen now living in the UK, I still like to keep up to date with goings on back home. So it was with all too familiar sadness…
By Naomi Miles, Chair of Trustees, CEASE My new knickers are bright fuchsia pink and ribbed cotton, probably the softest I’ve ever had. I’ve also got a new seamless bra which goes on like a crop top over the head…
By Vanessa Morse, CEO Growing up in Birmingham, I’ve celebrated more than a few birthdays in and around the city’s haunts. But none like this year’s. Earlier this month I marked the Big 4-2 back in Brum. But instead of…
By Jo Black, Head of Communications What’s your reaction when a friend gets a new job? Most people would congratulate them and ask questions about their new role, being enthusiastic for the new chapter they’re about to start. This is…
Statement from Vanessa Morse, CEO of CEASE (Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation) and Lead of the #KeepKidsOffPorn Coalition on the delay to the Online Safety Bill “We – on behalf of children, parents, families, individuals and survivors across the…
Reports of this incident are shocking and come at a time when 56 MPs, including three Cabinet ministers, are facing allegations of sexual misconduct. Pornography is a proven driver of sex inequality in society and it is completely unacceptable that this act of…
Much of the work we do here at CEASE focuses on the exploitation that goes on within the commercial sex trade, particularly on the violence and abuse that women and children are subjected to at the hands of exploiters. But…