EIE President Donna Rice Hughes participated as one of 150 world leaders in Rome to set the global agenda to protect children from sexual exploitation. The Congress concluded with meeting Pope Francis.

Our national campaigns, programs and Internet safety expertise made headline news in major media outlets reaching millions of households worldwide!

Ms. Hughes’ work and inspirational journey was featured in a one-hour TV special” “Barbara Walters Presents.” Her op-eds were published in major media publications including CNN.com, Foxnews.com and Politico.

President Trump signedEIE’s bi-partisan Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge agreeing to enforce the existing federal obscenity, child p*rnography, sexual predation, and child trafficking laws and advance public policies designed to prevent the sexual exploitation of children online. This is the first time in history a U.S. President has pledged to protect children in the digital world. We have met with AG Jeff Sessions for DOJ to follow through on the Pledge promises.

EIE’s Safe WiFi Campaign calling on Corporate America to filter porn and child porn on public WiFi resulted in McDonald’s filtering WiFi in 14,000 stores nationwide; Subway filtering in its company-owned stores and Starbucks’ announcement to implement national filtering and a global policy, but to date has not followed through.

Nearly 28,000 concerned citizens signed EIE’s petition to “Say No To Teen Vogue” for publishing a “How-to” Anal Sex Guide for its young readers at TeenVogue.com resulting in Conde Nast ceasing publication of the print edition of Teen Vogue Magazine!

The High Road Campaign (A Project Wilberforce Initiative)  is designed to confront the global epidemic of hate and cyberbullying by promoting civility, common decency and kindness. Ms. Hughes’ op-ed on CNN.com in support of Melania Trump’s cyberbullying platform garnered one million readers and 850 comments in the first 24 hours! The First Lady’s recent speech in the U.K. condemning online bullying included similar messaging utilized by the High Road campaign. The campaign is gaining traction!

The Internet Safety 101 Program^SM, lauded by the PTA as “a tailor-made response to the Internet child safety crisis facing our nation,” is now in international distribution. The Emmy winning 101 TV Series, in partnership with PBS, is on Vimeo and considered the ‘gold standard” of adult focused curriculum designed to develop savvy cyber-parents. (English/Spanish).

EIE launched the campaign urging Disney to take legal action against Disney-themed hard-core p*rn sites, an apparent violation of Disney’s copyrighted To date, nearly 64,000 petitions have been signed!

Ms. Hughes’ “High Road” speech at the national Moms March for America called moms to “stand together and focus on what unites us and not on what divides us,…to take the High Road and to join together for the protection and well-being of children from online sexual exploitation.”

Ms. Hughes joined fellow mom’s march speaker Candy Carson at the grand opening of the Museum of the Bible to ring the museum’s replica of the Liberty Bell, launching a ‘nationwide’ ringing of bells by churches to share the message of Americans coming together to “Let Freedom Ring!”.

The Project Wilberforce initiatives were designed by EIE to end the Internet-enabled exploitation of children, to foster a kinder and safer Internet, and to restore a culture of dignity and respect.

Included is the Public Health Pandemic Pornography Campaign, a national movement with our coalition partners to shed light on the social costs and corroding influence of Internet pornography as a public health epidemic. As a result, Utah, Virginia, Tennessee, and South Dakota have passed or proposed resolutions declaring Internet pornography a public health crisis and the RNC included similar language in the 2017 GOP Platform.