India, Dec. 1 -- Globally, 650 million (or 1 in 5) girls, and between 410-530 million (or around 1 in 7) boys have experienced sexual violence, according to a 2025 report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

An 830% increase was recorded in online child sexual abuse imagery from 2014 to last year by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which was first authorised to proactively hunt child sexual abuse in 2014 by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who was then head of the Crown Prosecution Service.

Unfortunately, AI has been a known catalyst for such crimes. AI image generation tools that help in creating Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) promote and facilitate instances of child sexual exploitation and abuse. CSAM is often refer...