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A 20-year-old Cambridge man is facing 19 child pornography charges after being found with X-rated movies involving boys as young as five years old.

Source: Fairfax NZ News, 2 Feb, 2012

An Auckland man is behind bars after he was found guilty of possessing more than 350 images of boys as young as six engaged in sexual acts or poses.

Source: NZ Newswire, 27 Jan, 2012

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A federal judge in Riverside has handed down a 25-year prison sentence to a man accused of distributing a video and photos of his sexual abuse of a boy to an international child-exploitation group.

Source: Los Angles Times, 24 Jan, 2012

A television reporter confronted middle-aged men in a park after they hooked up with a fictitious 14-year-old girl planted in an internet chatroom.

Source: NZ Herald, 22 Jan, 2012

Name suppression will continue for a Blenheim man who faces multiple charges of possessing child pornography.

Police experts found 622 images were of children under eight and more than 300 of the images showed infants under the age of 2.

Source: The Marlborough Express, 17 Jan, 2012

New Zealand's worst child pornographer has been caught reoffending while on parole in a sting by American police.

Stephen John Laing, 28, pleaded guilty in the Waitakere District Court yesterday to supplying 24 objectionable images of children, toddlers and babies being raped and sexually abused.

It was his fifth conviction for supplying child pornography.
Source: Fairfax NZ News

A New Zealand man faces a prison sentence after taking sexual pictures of a young girl in Russia.

He is one of the first New Zealanders to be convicted of a crime committed against children overseas.

Glenn Roderick Holland, 67, was found guilty last month of being a party to sexual conduct with a child outside New Zealand after Customs officers in 2007 found hundreds of pornographic photos on his computer, including those of a 7-year-old girl with another man.

Source: NZ Herald, 15 January 2012

NEW VIDEO LAUNCHES ABOUT THE LACK OF ADEQUATE CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING LAWS IN THE U.S.

New York-- Arresting children involved in prostitution does not rescue them. That is the clear message of "What I've Been Through Is Not Who I Am," a new documentary released by ECPAT-USA and WITNESS that tells the story of Katrina, a formerly sexually exploited teen who was arrested many times. It was only after she accepted an offer of help from a safe haven that she was able to escape.

ONE of Australia's worst cyber criminals will be sentenced tomorrow for raping, stalking and grooming vulnerable underage girls. 

John Zimmerman, who used MySpace and Facebook to contact more than a thousand teens, has pleaded to three charges of rape, 23 charges of sexual penetration and five charges of an indecent act with a child under 16, involving girls aged between 12 and 17.

The Don't Sweep It Under the Rug Uni Tour is a new project, with the overall purpose of educating youth and young adults on the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children, which is a growing concern.

In a landmark case, a man has been convicted in Auckland of facilitating child sex tours to Thailand.

Like many mums, Melissa Abraham wants to show off her kids by posting photos on Facebook - but little did she know they could be accessed by creeps trawling the internet.

There are pictures of Conner, 3, playing in his pyjamas and Lachlan, 5, at Rainbow's End during a family holiday. To family and friends the photos are adorable but the website Take This Lollipop shows how they would be perfect for groomers.

CLOSE to 500 staff from a hotel group in Fiji have been trained on making their resorts child friendly.

The Accor Group of Hotels in Fiji engaged the services of ECPAT Child Alert (end child prostitution, child pornography and trafficking) national director Alan Bell held a week-long training at Novotel Nadi, Novotel Suva and Mercure Nadi on the issue of child sex tourism.

Thursday September 29, 2011 10:23:09 PM, IANS

New Delhi: A petition containing over 7 million signatures from all over the world urging governments across the globe to take urgent action to stop the sex trafficking of children and young people was presented to the UN Thursday, making it perhaps the largest the world body has ever received.

International cosmetic brand The Body Shop and ECPAT, a global network of organisations and individuals working together for the elimination of child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children presented the petition to Human Rights Council president Dupuy Lassere in Geneva.

More than 16,000 files containing sexual images of underage children were found on the computer of an American man caught in an online police investigation, the Napier District Court has been told.

Douglas Curtis, 30, was appearing for sentence on Tuesday after earlier pleading guilty to seven charges of supplying objectionable material and 21 charges of possessing such material.

New Zealand has ratified two treaties at the United Nations - one criminalises serious violation of children's rights, the other criminalises attacks on UN peace-builders.

Justice Minister Simon Power deposited New Zealand's instruments of ratification yesterday.

Ambassador - At- Large Luis CdeBaca meets with ECPAT Child ALERT. The Ambassador along with the Consul General Randy Berry and Aides Heather Farrar, Mark Taylor and Tim Mulvey met with the ECPAT Board and Staff in July to discuss various aspects of people trafficking.
 

On Tuesday 28th June 2011, The Body Shop and ECPAT presented a petition of 2.3 million signatures from across Europe to European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in Brussels, Belgium.

A shocking haul of child sexual abuse material has been seized on ships arriving in Tauranga during a month-long Customs operation.
Customs officers seized 14 hard drives and five laptops from several vessels.
Some of the items contained "extreme" images of child sexual abuse, and were inspected by investigators and forensic officers who travelled from Auckland.

By Kiri Gillespie-Bay of Plenty Times, 21 June, 2011

The Commissioner Dr John Angus has recently made a presentation to the CYF Community Information Day entitled ”Preventing child Abuse and neglect”.

Queensland's worst sex offenders will be tracked with GPS technology by next year.

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A Chinese woman, convicted late month in Tonga's Supreme Court on human trafficking charges, has been jailed for ten years.

Australian actress Nicole Kidman is among the celebrities who have signed a petition calling for protection for victims of child trafficking.

LOS ANGELES (AFP)  – USA authorities have helped break up an international online child pornography ring using a bulletin board called "Lost Boy" and charged some 20 people in five countries.

The Internet forum was used by some three dozen members trading thousands of "images and videos of child pornography depicting young boys in sexually explicit situations," some of which the members made themselves.

On 21st November, 2010 the founder and Chairperson of Maiti Nepal, an ECPAT affiliate group based in Nepal, Ms. Anuradha Koirala was awarded the CNN Heroes 2010 of the Year. This is the first time that a Nepali has won the prestigious international award. CNN’s Anderson Cooper announced the result at the conclusion of the fourth-annual CNN Heroes: An All – Star Tribune, from the Shrine Auditorium amid a gala event in Los Angeles, California, before an audience of nearly 5,000.

12 December, at the International Forum Against Human Trafficking in Luxor, the first lady of Egypt, the honourable H.E. Suzanne Mubarak, presented Mr. Christopher Davis, International Campaigns Director of The Body Shop International, with the prestigious United Nation’s Business Leader’s Award to Fight Human Trafficking.

An HIV-positive man who sexually abused two children under 12 after serving time in jail for a similar offence has avoided an indefinite jail term. The abuse included rape of the girl child.

These two stars are tapped to be the ambassadors to stop the act of sex crime, appearing in radio spots and fliers for hotline call centre. Sarah Jessica Parker and Gabourey Sidibe are joining forces in the fight against sex trafficking - the actresses have signed up to lead aSarah Jessica Parker and Gabourey Sidibe are joining forces in the fight against sex trafficking - the actresses have signed up to lead a campaign to stamp out the illegal practice. campaign to stamp out the illegal practice.

As a result of viewing a TV item on the work of ECPAT Child Alert a university student was moved to contact the ECPAT office with an amazing offer.  

The NZ Police has made a significant arrest of a person in Auckland charged with encouraging child sex tourism. This is the first time this charge has been laid in New Zealand and will hopefully serve as a deterrent to operators and clients alike.

ECPAT Child Alert representative and researcher, author of the book “Speaking for Ourselves”, Serafin Dillon, talked on TVOne on 18th August, 2010 about young people she interviewed for the book who have experienced underage prostitution in Auckland.
To view the interview, click here.

Susan Sarandon is throwing her support behind a new campaign to help wipe out child trafficking.

Online Safety For Children.

Young Survivors of Sex Trafficking Inspire Beyonce, Halle Berry and More to Join ‘Girls Are Not for Sale’Campaign...

The Body Shop campaign 2010 begins

The president and co-founder of Love146, Rob Morris, has been selected as a keynote speaker this month at The School of WOM. The WOM series features “experiential thought leaders, and engagement passionistas, that ensure your brand becomes talkable across all consumer touch points.”

Thank God high profile celebs are getting on board the issue of the sexual exploitation of children. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher formed the Demi and Ashton Foundation in January this year to help eliminate child sex slavery worldwide.

To raise money for ECPAT UK and the child victims of trafficking, Debbie Beadle is completing 30 challenges before she turns 30 in October 2010.

Daniel Moore controlled access to a highly secret network of people trading and distributing child pornography on the internet.

Critics pick holes in child porn filter, NZ Herald
Over the next few months some New Zealanders are likely to get a nasty shock while browsing the internet - a web page that pops up on their computer saying "STOP!".

ECPAT UK and ABTA launch 'Every Child, Everywhere'- Child Protection Training for the Travel Industry

Battler Nominated, Western Leader
Ron O'Grady is among top senior nominees in the 2010 Senior New Zealander of the Year awards.
 
 

ECPAT UK is delighted that before Parliament was dissolved for the General Election the Anti-Slavery Day Bill became law.

Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
David Matas, legal council and board member of Beyond Borders (the ECPAT group in Canada) is nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize.