Children’s and Young People’s Rights in the Digital Age Concerns that children’s rights are being newly infringed rather than enhanced in the digital age are often raised by researchers, child rights’ advocates, and internet governance experts. Children’s needs and experiences ...
How to provide restitution to victims of child pornography crimes has recently proven to be a challenge for courts across the country. The difficulty stems from the fact that child pornography is often widely disseminated to countless thousands of criminals ...
One year ago today, the United States Senate, in one of its first acts of the 114th Congress, passed the Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 2015, on a vote of 98–0. As Senator Grassley explained, ...
Viewers of child sex abuse could lose homes Children’s charities urge Michael Gove to look at US–style laws forcing internet paedophiles to pay damages People who view images of child sex abuse could lose their homes or pensions under new ...
“While Congress could and should have made determination of the amount to which a victim is entitled a simple matter, it regrettably did not.” With these words, the influential Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals—which decides the law in fifteen federal ...
Seldom has an issue—any issue—garnered such bi-partisan support as the Amy and Vicky Act which passed the Senate in February 98–0. Unfortunately the bill remains stalled in the House Judiciary Committee despite a March hearing and bi-partisan vows of quick ...
Today the U.K. based Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety published a “Digital Manifesto” which it sent to all the major political parties contesting seats in the forthcoming General Election to the U.K. Parliament. According to the Manifesto: The government ...
Today, the United States Senate, in one of its first acts of the 114th Congress, passed the Amy and Vicky Child Pornography Victim Restitution Improvement Act of 2015 on a vote of 98-0. Here are the floor speeches which were ...
Last year, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais, issued this statement in the United State Supreme Court amicus brief filed by the Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and ...
Thanks very much Mister Chairman and Senator Hatch and cosponsors. In looking at this bill, it really is a very significant bill and that is because the Supreme Court in Paroline v. United States held that each possessor of child ...