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“A Global Movement to Protect Children”
The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) is the
leading global service agency working to protect the world’s children from
exploitation and abduction.
ICMEC Core Functions• Works to combat child abduction and child sexual
exploitation globally
• Provides training and assistance to law enforcement, legal professionals, NGOs, and governments
• Advocates for changes in laws, treaties, and systems to protect children worldwide
• Promotes the creation of national centers based on a public-private partnership model
• Leads a global financial coalition to eradicate commercial child pornography
Global Campaign Against Child Pornography
• Model Child Pornography Legislation
• Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography and Technology Coalition
• Training and Technology
Model Legislation
Review of national legislation in place in 196 countries around the world to
gain a better understanding of existing legislation and gauge where the issue stands on national political agendas
Results• 89 countries have no legislation at all
that specifically addresses child pornography.
• Only 45 countries have legislation sufficient to combat child pornography.
Law Enforcement Training• Launched in 2003 in conjunction with Interpol
and with the support of Microsoft
• Designed to provide law enforcement with the tools and techniques to investigate Internet-related child exploitation cases.
• Between 2003 and 2008: – Conducted 36 trainings– Trained 3,219 participants– 113 countries represented
Training: Next Steps• Advanced training for law enforcement
and prosecutors– In 2010, conducted training Russia, Brazil,
Guatemala, Guyana and more.
• Technology tools – Working with Microsoft to bring the Child
Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) to law enforcement worldwide.
– Currently in use in 8 Countries (Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom)
Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography
“If people were purchasing heroin and cocaine and using their credit cards, we
would be outraged and would do something about it. This is worse.”
Senator Richard C. ShelbyFormer Chairman, Current Ranking Member
U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
Eradication of Commercial Child Pornography• Establish a global clearinghouse on child
pornography
• Establish a proactive system to enable the financial industry to deal more effectively with illegal uses of its systems to disseminate child pornography
• Create a system for reporting suspected child pornography
• Implement monitoring and due diligence checks
FCACP Goal
Disrupt the Economics of the Child Pornography Business
FCACP Members
• Google• Green Dot Corporation• HSBC – North America• JP Morgan Chase• MasterCard• Microsoft• National Processing Company• North American Bancard• PayPal• Propay Inc.• Premier Bankcard LLC• Standard Chartered Bank• Visa• Wells Fargo• Western Union• Xoom.com• Yahoo! Inc.
• AOL Inc.• American Express Company• Banco Bradesco• Bank of America• Bank of New York• Capital One• Chase Paymentech Solutions• CheckFree• Citigroup• CyberSource – Authorize.net• Deutsche Bank Americas• Discover Financial Services LLC• Elavon, Inc• First Data Corporation• First National Bank of Omaha• Global Payments Inc.• Go Daddy.com Inc.
FCACP International ExpansionAsia PacificAPAC FCACP
The Americas Brazil
Canada
EuropeEuropean Financial Coalition
GreeceSweden
Technology CoalitionLaunched in 2006
GoalTo develop and deploy technology solutions that disrupt
the ability of predators to use the Internet to exploit children or traffic in child pornography.
MembersAOL
EarthlinkGoogle
MicrosoftUnited Online
Time Warner CableYahoo!
URL List• URLs containing the “worst of the worst”, most
egregious images of prepubescent children
• Distributed to participating Internet companies
• Alerts companies of content that may be on their systems that is in clear violation of their Terms of Use agreements
• International distribution to 16 countries
Thank you!
Sandra S. MarchenkoDirector, The Koons Family Institute on
International Law & Policy
International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC)
Telephone: [email protected]