Activities of Michèle STRIFFLER related to 2010/0064(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography - Children's rights in the European Union (debate)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) As preventive measures, Member States should ensure that information and awareness-raising campaign are accessible to everyone, taking particular care to ensure that they can be understood by children who are not yet able to read. To this end, notices which are sufficiently easy to understand and tailored to each age group should be displayed in all educational establishments (nursery, primary and secondary schools), and more generally in all places frequented by children.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Child pornography, which constitutes sex abuse images, is a specific type of content which cannot be construed as the expression of an opinion. To combat it, it is necessary to reduce the circulation of child abuse material by making it more difficult for offenders to upload such content onto the publicly accessible Web. Action is therefore necessary to remove the content at source and apprehend those guilty of making distributing or downloading child abuse images. The EU, in particular through increased cooperation with third countries and international organisations, should seek to facilitate the effective removal by third country authorities of websites containing child pornography, which are hosted in their territory. However as, despite such efforts, the removal of child pornography content at its source proves to be difficult where the original materials are not located within the EU, mechanisms should also be put in place to block access from the Union’s territory to internet pages identified as containing or disseminating child pornography. For that purpose, different mechanisms can be used as appropriate, including facilitating the competent judicial or police authorities to order such blocking, or supporting and stimulatbliging Internet Service Providers on a voluntary basis to develop codes of conduct and guidelines for blocking access to such Internet pages, in order to increase their responsibilities. Both with a view to the removal and the blocking of child abuse content, cooperation between public authorities should be established and strengthened, particularly in the interest of ensuring that national lists of websites containing child pornography material are as complete as possible and of avoiding duplication of work. Any such developments must take account of the rights of the end users, adhere to existing legal and judicial procedures and comply with the European Convention on Human Rights and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. The Safer Internet Programme has set up a network of hotlines whose goal is to collect information and to ensure coverage and exchange of reports on the major types of illegal content online.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b – subpoint iii
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b – subpoint iii
(iii) any material that visually depicts any person appearing to beshowing a child or a virtual image of a child engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit conduct or any depiction ofshowing the sexual organs of any person appearing to be a child child, or a virtual image thereof, for primarily sexual purposes; or
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b – subpoint iv
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b – subpoint iv
(iv) realistic images of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct or realistic images of the sexual organs of a child, regardless of the actual existence of such child, or of a virtual image thereof for primarily sexual purposes.;
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 2
Article 15 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall take the necessary measures to encourage any person who knows about or suspects, in good faith, offences referred to in Articles 3 to 7 to report these facts to the competent services. Member States shall ensure that such persons can be held criminally liable for failure to assist a person in danger.