National Child Protection Policy graphic showing United Arab Emirates family

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), represented by the Ministry of Interior and in coordination with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) recently contributed to the training of law enforcement officers in 10 Latin American countries that participated in the international operation against online child sexual exploitation and abuse. The operation was led by Argentina and carried out simultaneously in 15 countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and the United States. The training program was conducted in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires as part of the Artificial Intelligence for Safer Children initiative launched by UNICRI and the UAE Ministry of Interior in 2020, with the mission of strengthening the capabilities of law enforcement agencies around the world to employ artificial intelligence to combat sexual crimes against children.

Illustration depicting artificial intelligence AI facial recognition

The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) and Clearview AI conducted an operation in Ecuador this past spring that resulted in locating and positively identifying 110 previously unknown child sexual abuse victims. The operation, held in Ecuador and hosted by ICMEC, used Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology as a main resource. Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, and the Dominican Republic were among the countries that worked together on hundreds of cold cases involving previously unknown victims of online child sexual exploitation and abuse.