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On 31 March 2016, a customer holds a smartphone inside a mobile phone repair store in Taiobeiras municipality in the Southeastern state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. On the front of the phone can be seen several social media app icons. Brazil is the world’s fifth largest country, by population and geographical area, with the eighth wealthiest economy. About 200 million people live in the country’s 5,565 municipalities and include 60 million children and adolescents of whom 51 per cent are boys and 49 per cent are girls. At the end of 2012, nearly half the population had access to the internet with nearly 21 million users ages 15-24 online with mobile phones and other devices with internet access. Brazil currently has 21 million adolescents aged 12-17, its largest adolescent population ever. With the rapid expansion of information and communication technologies, protecting children online is an urgent global priority. Children make up one-third of all Internet users globally. The lack of awareness of online safety, along with children’s natural inquisitiveness or an adolescent’s sexual curiosity and susceptibility to peer influence, predisposes them to online victimisation. Children’s vulnerability to online sexual abuse and exploitation manifests itself in: cyberbullying and Internet harassment; exposure to sexually explicit content; sexting (sending and receiving sexually explicit photographs or messages via mobile phone); sexual solicitation; and production of child sexual abuse material using children. Globally, the number of webpages that contained child sexual abuse material increased by 147 per cent from 2012 to 2014, with girls being more likely to be depicted in 81 per cent of these materials. Additionally, 91% of child sexual abuse material is non-commercial and being shared among online file-sharing networks. In Brazil, sixty-two per cent of reported victims of violence against children and adolescents are girls and 60 per cent of reported cases