WHAT: Dawn Hawkins, senior advisor to the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), will testify before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, about online harms to children in a hearing titled, The World Wild Web: Examining the Harms Online.
Ms. Hawkins has called out corporate entities facilitating exploitation via NCOSE’s annual Dirty Dozen List, fostered a broad international coalition of 600+ organizations, and constantly advocates for survivors. Her work has sparked change at Google, Hilton Worldwide, Comcast, Walmart, the Department of Defense, Instagram, TikTok, and more.
Ms. Hawkins recently coauthored a Deseret News op-ed about how App stores are exploiting children; the Utah state legislature responded and passed the App Store Accountability Act to mitigate those harms. Hawkins has also advocated for the TAKE IT DOWN Act, criminalizing image-based sexual abuse and AI-generated deepfakes, and the Kids Online Safety Act, which offers online child protection by mandating a “duty of care.”
WHEN: Wednesday, March 26 at 10:00 am EDT
WHERE: The House Subcommittee hearing will be in person at 2123 Rayburn House Office Building or livestreamed online at energycommerce.house.gov.
CONTACT: To arrange an interview with Dawn Hawkins, please contact press@ncose.com.
About National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE)
Founded in 1962, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is the leading national non-profit organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health harms of pornography.
