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The global push to combat child sexual abuse is being stepped up this year on a global basis with much activity around
• Improving laws around the protection of children,
• Criminalization of the possession of CSA images,
• Providing public reporting facilities (Online hot lines), and
• Blocking access to known child sexual abuse imagery online
• Governmental and intergovernmental work to implement filtering through Internet Service Providers
Here are some links to recent press outlining activity that is being carried out globally that provide a great overview of government and industry moves to filtering child pornography.
16/01/09 Germany propose to set up block list of child pornography
13/1/09 Sri Lanka : MoU signed to curb child porn
15/1/09 Germany's Family Minister Requires Internet Filtering
23/1/09 Belgium wants in on European web blocklist
17/2/09 French Operators support Govt plan to block child porn sites
French telecommunication association FFT, which includes the country's major operators with the exception of Iliad, parent company of ISP Free, told AFP that it agreed with French president Sarkozy's proposal to set up a black list of child pornography sites. FFT president Yves Le Mouel said that the grouping was working with the ministry of the interior and the secretary of state for families on the initiative. The government would be in charge of drawing up the list of websites to be blocked by ISPs. Le Mouel said that normally, the state would pay for the filtering mechanisms to be put in place, but if it was a matter of sev0eral thousands or tens of thousands of Euro, he thought that operators would agree to finance it.
25/2/09 Small ISPs reject call to filter out child abuse sites (UK)
25/3/09 Official EU Memo - Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on combating the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, repealing Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA.
March 2009 Watchdog International Ltd commentary on EU initiative
March 2009 If there was any doubt about the risk of citizens going to known CSA sites the recent statistic provided by BT gives some indication of attempts to access material – putting the figure for their own filtering service to prevent between 35,000 and 40,000 attempts daily.
10/3/09 Japan Times
Japanese authorities can also focus on Internet service providers (ISP). Last year, the Internet Hotline Center Japan, which monitors sites under the control of the Internet Association of Japan, found more than 500 sites with child pornography operating in Japan. Many, but not all, agreed to remove child pornography. ISPs should block and filter the most damaging content and work with the police and nongovernmental organizations that monitor the problem.
26/3/09 Australia ABC
Keeping abreast of where the Aussies are at you may already have seen these but if not they are definitely worth listening to as they give an up to date view of the filtering debate in Australia currently. ABC Insight programme on Australian SBS TV
27/3/09 Minister Conroy blacklist debate narrows to ‘restricted content’
19/04/09 Germany Bids to Block Child Porn Sites
22/4/09 Czech: ”Safer Internet for Children” adopted the Prague.
The Czech Ministry of the Interior in cooperation with the European Commission organised a ministerial conference ”Safer Internet for Children – fighting together against illegal content and conduct on-line” in Prague on 20 April 2009. The conference was dedicated to the process of improving cooperation between all stakeholders in the field of promoting safer Internet and mobile communications, especially for children. At the end of the conference the participants adopted the Prague Declaration.
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