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Friday, December 14, 2012

48 countries join forces against online child abuse

By Associated Press
Originally Published: December 5


Forty-eight countries united Wednesday in a global alliance to fight child sexual abuse online, a cross-border crime that experts say is increasing at alarming rates.

By conservative estimates, 1 million photographs of child pornography are on the Internet, with an additional 50,000 being posted every year, said Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Union’s commissioner for home affairs who was one of sponsors of the conference in Brussels.


“Behind each of these images there is an abused child, an exploited and helpless victim,” Malmstrom said at a news conference. “And every time someone looks at these pictures, that child is exploited and violated again and again and again.”

The alliance will focus on identifying and helping victims, prosecuting offenders, increasing public awareness and reducing the availability of child pornography online, according to a joint declaration.

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