Summary:

ITs offer unprecedented opportunities to communicate, learn and participate. The web is a space of nearly unlimited freedom where real and virtual blur together and cybernauts hide their identities behind smiling emoticons. This no man’s land is vulnerable to harmful use and is proving to be permeated by an alarming proliferation of child pornographic material.

www.ohchr.org/english/issues/children/rapporteur/annual05.htm

www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/docs/61chr/E.CN.4.2005.78.pdf

Organisation Contact Details:

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Last updated 28/01/2005 07:25:26

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