April 2011

Information technology skills will boost women’s participation in crucial sector – UN

Submitted by CPP on April 28, 2011 - 08:49

28 April 2011 – Greater efforts to support girls and young women to acquire skills in information and communications technologies (ICTs) could help address projected shortages of manpower in those professions, the United Nations telecommunications agency said today, marking the first “Girls in ICT Day.”

 

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Oregon bill to protect children from digital exploitation

Submitted by CPP on April 28, 2011 - 08:11

No respectable human being could justify child pornography. Neither liberal nor conservative, democrat nor republican, male nor female. No one. It’s an offense that transcends every notion of basic decency. The offense is so heinous, in fact, that Oregon law requires medical professionals, educators, licensed counselors, even pastors and attorneys to report any evidence of child pornography to the authorities, 24 hours a day.

 

RCMP share tips to keep kids safe

Submitted by CPP on April 26, 2011 - 12:20

The best way to protect your kids from online predators is to stay involved in their lives, according to the RCMP.

 

"Stay interested in what your kids are doing and learn what they're up to," said Cpl. Jean-Marc Paré, commanding officer of J Division's Internet Child Exploitation Unit.

 

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Plan Thailand interviewed on Cyber Crime

Submitted by CPP on April 18, 2011 - 08:10

... Child trafficking, with the assistance of social networking, has become an ever-increasing social problem that non-government agencies such as Plan International Thailand, are assisting with.

 

Software aids fight against exploitation: CPP Study Tour Workshop Profiled

Submitted by CPP on April 18, 2011 - 08:05

The Child Exploitation Tracking System designed by Microsoft to assist law enforcement agents, civil servants and children themselves combat sexual exploitation over the internet was introduced to Thai police at a workshop conducted by Canadian law enforcement personnel recently in Bangkok.

 

CPP Brazil PM presents lecture on children's rights and ICT

Submitted by CPP on April 14, 2011 - 14:29

On March 15, Emilia Bretan, CPP Brazil Project Manager, received special invitiation to attend an event hosted by the Special Secretariat of Child and Youth of São Carlos Municipality in Brazil. São Carlos is a university city located in the country side of São Paulo State.

Canadian Study Tour Delegation on Policy and Law Enforcement Visits Pattaya

Submitted by CPP on April 14, 2011 - 14:11

On March 4, 2011, the Canadian delegation of the CPP Policy and Law Enforcement Study Tour, including CPP Director and Deputy & Legal Director of IICRD, Suzanne Williams, met with police officials of the Children and Women Protection Centre of Police Region 2 of the Royal Thai Police, representatives from Pattaya City and governmental and non-governmental organizations at the Banglamung Police Station, in Pattaya, Chonburi Province, Thailand.

 

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CPP Brazil Pilots Internet Safety Game

Submitted by CPP on April 13, 2011 - 12:41

On Tuesday, April 5th, CPP Brazil, in partnership with the Paramitas Institute ran the first testing of an interactive game designed to educate children about the risks of the Internet, at Obra do Berco in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  
 

 

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NICFD and IICRD-CPP sign MOU

Submitted by CPP on April 13, 2011 - 12:16

An inter-institutional agreement between the National Institute for Child and Family Development (NICFD) and the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) was signed and celebrated on April 4, 2011 at the University of Victoria in Canada. 

 

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UN warning on online dangers for children

Submitted by CPP on April 13, 2011 - 11:16

The UN's anti-crime chief is urging governments around the world to join forces to make the Internet safer for children.

 

Yury Fedotov, head of the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, says online child abuse is a "huge business" that is expanding rapidly.