child abuse

Today Save the Children and other several organizations such as Civil Liberties Australia, the National Children`s and Youth Law Centre released a join statement opposing the proposed mandatory internet service provider (ISP) filter. The statement says the filter will not be effective in protecting children from online dangers. Besides, the organisations want the funds that would be spent implementing the scheme to be funnelled to child protection authorities and police to help prevent child abuse.

The text of the new legislation, designed to enshrine the blocking of selected internet sites in law, was agreed by Germany`s two main political parties - - the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats - on Monday night. It authorized German federal police to put together a block list containing the domain names and IP addresses of websites hosting and linking to child porn.

On Wednesday in its annual report the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said that while the number of websites displaying child pornography dropped by almost 10% in 2008 most of those images were still traded by commercial sites which account for 74% of all the Internet addresses which offer child abuse images.

It has been announced that the German Cabinet has approved a law aimed at strengthening the existing ban on child sex abuse images.

According to the law, ISPs will be required to display a 'Stop' sign when a user tries to access websites including the prohibited content. The list of those websites will be prepared by the police and transferred to ISPs.