Background and Aim: Children in cyberspace are victims of many problems, including pornography. Individuals and companies that use children as tools for their nefarious purposes. In this article, the main goal is to explain the efforts of the Council of Europe and the European Union to prevent and spread these evil intentions such as child pornography. The efforts that have been made by establishing preventive laws and requiring the contracting countries to join them and implement these regulations.
Method: In this article, the type of theoretical research is the descriptive-analytical research method, which was prepared and using library resources.
Results: The findings indicate that the efforts made by the Council of Europe and subsequently by the European Union to prevent and spread child pornography in the virtual space were one of the first efforts of the international community. It is true that the sovereign territory of the efforts made in the Council of Europe and the European Union only includes Europe and the countries in that territory, but since these efforts can be considered among the model rules and examples for other countries in the world, they can The standardization of the new laws established to prevent the spread of child pornography will be useful.

Conclusion: The result obtained from this study is that the Council of Europe has managed to criminalize it in a way by passing laws to prevent and spread child pornography in cyberspace and considering that the signatory countries have left it free to do this. To localize the regulations according to the rights and regulations of its subject, therefore, it has been able to provide a solid step to prevent the spread of this crime. Also, the efforts made by the European Union following the efforts of the European Council to institutionalize these preventive regulations can be considered.
Please cite this article as:
Mahmoudi AR, Miri Balajorshari SM. Regulations Established by the Council of Europe and the European Union against the Spread of Child Pornography through the Internet. Child Rights Journal. 2023; 5(19): 83-93.