Child Sexual Abuse - India

Our latest iniative which will keep evolving While rapid innovative advances in information and communications have created an exciting world for anyone with access to the related services and offered unparalleled opportunities, it has also had an immeasurable impact on the sexual exploitation of children Various forums and groups randomly but routinely tend to report on adult content websites and the impact on children and young people accessing them. However there is hardly any scrutiny or understanding of an issue which warrants our immediate attention - online “grooming” of children and young people by potential child sex abusers leading to usually risky and dangerous situations - and which is now part of the recently amended IT Act. We need to understand that at any given moment thousands of potential/child sex abusers are making contact online with unsuspecting children and young people, native and completely reliant on ICT’s, with the intention of further exploitatio...

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/78247/India/Hotels+and+airlines+to+fight+child+sex+tourism.html Hotels, airlines to fight child sex tourism New Delhi January 8, 2010 Hotels and airlines will no longer allow the use of the Internet on their premises by anyone searching for child pornography or sites that peddle child sex tourism. If any of their employees is found helping tourists abuse children, these industries will ensure the workers are sacked and arrested. Besides, all employees will be trained to keep an eye on paedophiles. These are some of the guidelines framed for the tourism industry to curb child sex tourism. The guidelines have been drawn up by Pacific Asia Travel Association's (PATA) India chapter and the ministry of tourism. Sources said state tourism departments will start implementing them in the next two months. The guidelines also require the tourism industry to conduct all future businesses by introducing a clause in the contracts that will discourage sexu...