End OSEAC Coalition Urges Congress to Pass the Stop CSAM Act
Posted On 06/04/2026 | 2 minutes
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End OSEAC Coalition Urges Congress to Pass the Stop CSAM Act
The bill focuses on strengthening protections for children from online sexual exploitation and abuse.
Washington, D.C. | June 4, 2026 – ChildFund and the End Online Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children (OSEAC) Coalition, a group of nearly 40 organizations committed to furthering policies that protect children online, penned an open letter to Congress to urge action on the STOP CSAM Act, up for a vote this month. More than 100 organizations have signed on.
The scale of online abuse against children, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), is staggering. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) received 21 million reports of suspected CSAM in 2025 alone, and the proliferation of CSAM continues to go unchecked. Technology companies are still not held accountable or liable, even when they knowingly host this material on their platforms, making justice for survivors elusive. Every piece of CSAM represents a child who has been abused, and when that material remains online, victims continue to suffer harm.
The bipartisan STOP CSAM Act (S.1829/H.R. 3921) is a clear pathway toward a safer internet for children and young people. It ensures justice for survivors, requires transparency by technology companies, provides law enforcement with access to information they need to identify and stop abuse, and protects survivors from re-traumatization when their cases are prosecuted.
“Passing the Stop CSAM Act will advance online child protection efforts significantly and will support survivors in a way that we haven’t seen before,” says ChildFund’s Caroline Hubbard, director of the End OSEAC Coalition. “It is a critical and long-overdue step toward greater accountability, stronger protections for children, and meaningful justice for victims. Congress should enact it now and continue building on its progress.”
The Coalition is steadfast in its support of policies that meaningfully work to make the internet safer for children, and to hold technology companies and perpetrators of online harm accountable.
About ChildFund
ChildFund works throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas, including the United States, to connect children with what they need to grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe — at home, in school, in community, online. ChildFund leads the End OSEAC Coalition, a group of nearly 40 civil society organizations advocating for policies to protect children online. Find out more at www.ChildFund.org
About the End OSEAC Coalition
The End Online Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children (OSEAC) Coalition is a U.S. advocacy coalition that aims to improve U.S. government policies and programs to better prevent and address online sexual exploitation and abuse of children and provide appropriate support to survivors. Learn more about our mission to #ProtectKidsOnline: EndOSEAC.org.