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Article

26 Nov 2009

Author:
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Child pornography flourishes in a world with no borders

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.”…M’jid warns that the increasingly interactive nature of the internet whilst having obvious advantages, also “bring new risks for children and youth”. The report cites the convergence of mobile phones and the Internet, particularly chat rooms, as offering children and young people new forms of communication and making them more trusting and ultimately more vulnerable…She acknowledges the strategies already in place; the hotlines, education programmes, voluntary codes of conduct in the private sector and cooperation internationally between law enforcement agencies, but she says further progress must be made.