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Plus de 40 tonnes de marijuana ont été saisies en Macédoine du Nord, une semaine après une importante opération en Serbie. Les autorités évoquent des cultures légales détournées vers le trafic.

- Le fil de l'Info / Courrier des Balkans, drogues, Macédoine du Nord, Serbie, Défense, police et justice, Relations régionales

Plus de 40 tonnes de marijuana ont été saisies en Macédoine du Nord, une semaine après une importante opération en Serbie. Les autorités évoquent des cultures légales détournées vers le trafic.

- Le fil de l'Info / Courrier des Balkans, drogues, Macédoine du Nord, Serbie, Défense, police et justice, Relations régionales

Les insurgés ont mené une vague de frappes de drones contre des positions militaires dans la région.

Le ministre de la Santé, Mohamed Seddik Aït Messaoudène, a annoncé officiellement le lancement imminent de la chirurgie de transplantation cardiaque en Algérie au cours […]

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Le gouvernement français a officiellement lancé la réforme de l’Aide médicale d’Etat (AME) via deux nouveaux décrets. L’objectif affiché est double : optimiser les procédures […]

L’article Aide médicale d’État : la France durcit les contrôles pour les sans-papiers est apparu en premier sur .

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L’article La Tournée du Trophée de la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA™ par Coca-Cola fait escale en Algérie est apparu en premier sur .

Face à l’engorgement chronique des infrastructures maritimes, le gouvernement algérien accélère la cadence. Entre réformes administratives, extensions physiques et déroutement systématique des navires, cette stratégie […]

L’article Fin du chaos dans les ports algériens : la stratégie de l’État pour faire baisser les prix est apparu en premier sur .

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L’article Chiens errants à Alger : la wilaya change d’approche face à ce phénomène urbain est apparu en premier sur .

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L’article EdTech : Zed Academy lève des fonds pour transformer l’éducation en Algérie est apparu en premier sur .

Every morning before sunrise, 10-year-old Amina Adan walks away from school and toward a shrinking water pan on the outskirts of Rhamu, Mandera County. By the time her classmates would be opening exercise books, Amina was already balancing a yellow jerrycan almost half her size. Her mother, Fatuma Adan, says the choice is no longer […]

This chapter discusses the uptake of climate change as a global challenge by the G7 and how climate-related policies evolved as items on the G7’s agenda. The focus is in particular on the G7’s role and approach to the implementation of the Paris Agreement and corresponding linkages to international cooperation. Accordingly, it traces the co-evolution of climate change as an emergent issue of international politics and cooperation vis-à-vis the unfolding uptake of climate change on the agenda of the G7/ G8 from the 1990s onwards. It then zooms in closer to review the G7’s major climate-related commitments and initiatives in the decade since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in particular. What have been the G7’s key initiatives with regard to global climate policy and finance? How do they interact with the processes of multilateral climate governance? What has been their impact on international climate cooperation, especially with regard to meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement? Addressing these questions, the chapter presents a thorough review of G7 initiatives, focusing especially on G7 declarations and designated initiatives since the 2015 G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, as the summit immediately preceding the adoption of the Paris Agreement.

This chapter discusses the uptake of climate change as a global challenge by the G7 and how climate-related policies evolved as items on the G7’s agenda. The focus is in particular on the G7’s role and approach to the implementation of the Paris Agreement and corresponding linkages to international cooperation. Accordingly, it traces the co-evolution of climate change as an emergent issue of international politics and cooperation vis-à-vis the unfolding uptake of climate change on the agenda of the G7/ G8 from the 1990s onwards. It then zooms in closer to review the G7’s major climate-related commitments and initiatives in the decade since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in particular. What have been the G7’s key initiatives with regard to global climate policy and finance? How do they interact with the processes of multilateral climate governance? What has been their impact on international climate cooperation, especially with regard to meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement? Addressing these questions, the chapter presents a thorough review of G7 initiatives, focusing especially on G7 declarations and designated initiatives since the 2015 G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, as the summit immediately preceding the adoption of the Paris Agreement.

This chapter discusses the uptake of climate change as a global challenge by the G7 and how climate-related policies evolved as items on the G7’s agenda. The focus is in particular on the G7’s role and approach to the implementation of the Paris Agreement and corresponding linkages to international cooperation. Accordingly, it traces the co-evolution of climate change as an emergent issue of international politics and cooperation vis-à-vis the unfolding uptake of climate change on the agenda of the G7/ G8 from the 1990s onwards. It then zooms in closer to review the G7’s major climate-related commitments and initiatives in the decade since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in particular. What have been the G7’s key initiatives with regard to global climate policy and finance? How do they interact with the processes of multilateral climate governance? What has been their impact on international climate cooperation, especially with regard to meeting the objectives of the Paris Agreement? Addressing these questions, the chapter presents a thorough review of G7 initiatives, focusing especially on G7 declarations and designated initiatives since the 2015 G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, as the summit immediately preceding the adoption of the Paris Agreement.

Attention, un rappel massif est en cours pour des aiguillettes de poulet halal vendues, partout en France, notamment chez Carrefour, Intermarché et U, à cause […]

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Des millions de documents liés à Epstein publiés par le ministère américain de la Justice mentionnent les noms de personnalités riches et puissantes du monde entier.

Des millions de documents liés à Epstein publiés par le ministère américain de la Justice mentionnent les noms de personnalités riches et puissantes du monde entier.

Tuesday 10 February

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Tuesday 10 February

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Tuesday 10 February

Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

Millions of children are at risk of facing exploitation and abuse through exposure to and having their images being manipulated through generative AI tools. Credit: Ludovic Toinel/Unsplash

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 10 2026 (IPS)

New findings from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reveal that millions of children are having their images manipulated into sexualized content through the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), fueling a fast-growing and deeply harmful form of online abuse. The agency warns that without strong regulatory frameworks and meaningful cooperation between governments and tech platforms, this escalating threat could have devastating consequences for the next generation.

A 2025 report from The Childlight Global Child Safety Institute—an independent organization that tracks child sexual exploitation and abuse—shows a staggering rise in technology-facilitated child abuse in recent years, growing from 4,700 cases in the United States in 2023 to over 67,000 in 2024. A significant share of these incidents involved deepfakes: AI-generated images, videos, and audio engineered to appear realistic and often used to create sexualized content. This includes widespread “nudification”, where AI tools strip or alter clothing in photos to produce fabricated nude images.

A joint study from UNICEF, Interpol, and End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT) International examined the rates of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) circulated online across 11 countries found that at least 1.2 million children had their images manipulated into sexually explicit deepfakes in the past year alone. This means roughly one in every 25 children—or one child in every classroom—has already been victimized by this emerging form of digital abuse.

“When a child’s image or identity is used, that child is directly victimised,” a UNICEF representative said. “Even without an identifiable victim, AI-generated child sexual abuse material normalises the sexual exploitation of children, fuels demand for abusive content and presents significant challenges for law enforcement in identifying and protecting children that need help. Deepfake abuse is abuse, and there is nothing fake about the harm it causes.”

A 2025 survey from National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) studied the public’s attitudes toward deepfake abuse, finding that deepfake abuse had surged by 1,780 percent between 2019 and 2024. In a UK-wide representative survey conducted by Crest Advisory, nearly three in five respondents reported feeling worried about becoming victims of deepfake abuse.

Additionally, 34 percent admitted to creating a sexual or intimate deepfake of someone they knew, while 14 percent had created deepfakes of someone they did not know. The research also found that women and girls are disproportionately targeted, with social media identified as the most common place where these deepfakes are spread.

The study also presented respondents with a scenario in which a person creates an intimate deepfake of their partner, discloses it to them, and later distributes it to others following an argument. Alarmingly, 13 percent of respondents said this behavior should be both morally and legally acceptable, while an additional 9 percent expressed neutrality. NPCC also reported that those who considered this behavior to be acceptable were more likely to be younger men who actively consume pornography and agree with beliefs that would “commonly be regarded as misogynistic”.

“We live in very worrying times, the futures of our daughters (and sons) are at stake if we don’t start to take decisive action in the digital space soon,” award-winning activist and internet personality Cally-Jane Beech told NPCC. “We are looking at a whole generation of kids who grew up with no safeguards, laws or rules in place about this, and now seeing the dark ripple effect of that freedom.”

Deepfake abuse can have severe and lasting psychological and social consequences for children, often triggering intense shame, anxiety, depression, and fear. In a new report, UNICEF notes that a child’s “body, identity, and reputation can be violated remotely, invisibly, and permanently” through deepfake abuse, alongside risks of threats, blackmailing, and extortion from perpetrators. Feelings of violation – paired with the permanence and viral spread of digital content – can leave victims with long-term trauma, mistrust, and disrupted social development.

“Many experience acute distress and fear upon discovering that their image has been manipulated into sexualised content,” Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, Child Protection Specialist at UNICEF Headquarters told IPS. “Children report feelings of shame and stigma, compounded by the loss of control over their own identity. These harms are real and lasting: being depicted in sexualised deepfakes can severely impact a child’s wellbeing, erode their trust in digital spaces, and leave them feeling unsafe even in their everyday ‘offline’ lives.”

Cosmas Zavazava, Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), added that online abuse can also translate to physical harm.

In a joint statement on Artificial Intelligence and the Rights of the Child, key UN entities, including UNICEF, ITU, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN Commission of the Rights of the Child (CRC) warned that among children, parents, caregivers and teachers, there was a widespread lack of AI literacy. This refers to the basic ability to understand how AI systems work and how to engage with them critically and effectively. This knowledge gap leaves young people especially vulnerable, making it harder for victims and their support systems to recognize when a child is being targeted, to report abuse, or to access adequate protections and support services.

The UN also emphasized that a substantial share of responsibility lies with tech platforms, noting that most generative AI tools lack meaningful safeguards to prevent digital child exploitation.

“From UNICEF’s perspective, deepfake abuse thrives in part because legal and regulatory frameworks have not kept pace with technology. In many countries, laws do not explicitly recognise AI‑generated sexualised images of children as child sexual abuse material (CSAM),” said Johnson.

UNICEF is urging governments to ensure that definitions of CSAM are updated to include AI-generated content and “explicitly criminalise both its creation and distribution”. According to Johnson, technology companies should be required to adopt what he called “safety-by-design measures” and “child-rights impact assessments”.

He stressed however that while essential, laws and regulations alone would not be enough. “Social norms that tolerate or minimise sexual abuse and exploitation must also change. Protecting children effectively will require not only better laws, but real shifts in attitudes, enforcement, and support for those who are harmed.”

Commercial incentives further compound the problem, with platforms benefitting from increased user engagement, subscriptions, and publicity generated by AI image tools, creating little motivation to adopt stricter protection measures.

As a result, tech companies often introduce guardrails only after major public controversies — long after children have already been affected. One such example is Grok, the AI chatbot for X (formerly Twitter), which was found generating large volumes of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfake images in response to user prompts. Facing widespread, international backlash, X announced in January that Grok’s image generator tool would only be limited to X’s paid subscribers.

Investigations into Grok are ongoing, however. The United Kingdom and the European Union have opened investigations since January, and on February 3, prosecutors in France raided X’s offices as part of its investigation into the platform’s alleged role in circulating CSAM and deepfakes. X’s owner Elon Musk was summoned for questioning.

UN officials have stressed the need for regulatory frameworks that protect children online while still allowing AI systems to grow and generate revenue. “Initially, we got the feeling that they were concerned about stifling innovation, but our message is very clear: with responsible deployment of AI, you can still make a profit, you can still do business, you can still get market share,” said a senior UN official. “The private sector is a partner, but we have to raise a red flag when we see something that is going to lead to unwanted outcomes.”

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