WUNRN
Please see multiple parts of this
WUNRN release on the human
rights violations of Child
Pornography and The Girl Child.
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The figures are devastating. At any one time on the Internet it is estimated there are around three quarters of a million predators searching for sites featuring child pornography. The UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat Maalla M’jid in a report to the latest session of the Human Rights Council says, “there is more and more child pornography on the Internet, becoming what is today a very profitable business, with a worldwide market value estimated at billions of dollars.”
Statistics for cyber child pornography are difficult to find but in her report M’jid points to estimates that over a three year period between 2001 and 2004 the number of sites carrying child pornography nearly doubled to around 480,000. Estimates of the number of children who are victims vary hugely, from ten thousand to 100,000. Pornographic images of children, from babies through to teenagers are posted on the web. Figures cited in the report estimate nearly 20 percent of individuals possessing child pornography had images of babies and children aged under 3 and more than 80 percent had images of children aged between 6 and 12.........Full Statement: http://www.ohchr.org:80/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/ChildPornography.aspx
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CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - RESOURCES -
PROTECT THE GIRL CHILD
Report
of the 51st session of the Commission on the Status of Women
- 2007 - Violence Against the Girl Child - Agreed Conclusions
Website
Link: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/51sess.htm
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - THE GIRL CHILD
14.9 Violence and Discrimination
(j) Develop and strengthen
partnerships involving Governments, civil society, the media and business
sectors and other relevant actors in the elimination of child pornography
including child pornography transmitted through the media and ICT's, in the
protection of the girl child from related abuses and exploitation, and in
training, inter alia, law enforcers, prosecutors, judges and social workers, as
appropriate, in order to build effective capacities to eradicate child
pornography;
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Direct Link to: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY: MODEL LEGISLATION
& GLOBAL REVIEW - Fifth Edition
- 2008
International Centre for Missing
& Exploited Children
Website Reference:
Model Legislation and Global Review - Developing and championing a model legislation with regards to child pornography is crucial to a successful outcome in the fight against child pornography. Consequently, we conducted research into the child pornography legislation currently in place in the 187 Interpol Member Countries.
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Direct Link to Document:
ECPAT International - 2008
Child Pornography & Sexual
Exploitation of Children Online
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Attached is an Internet Pornography
Report, via DIGNITY, and an expert in Media Forensics, the
scientific analysis of images, pictures, cartoons, illustrations, pornography
and text in sexual harassment of women and children in the workplace, schools,
and homes.
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