EP MOVES TO PROTECT CHILDREN.

• Position: European Parliament - Brief article

The European Parliament adopted, on 3 February, an own-initiative report by Roberta Angelilli (UEN, Italy) on combating the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. It calls for making "all types of sexual abuse of children" a criminal offence, including "grooming" (the act of soliciting children for sexual purposes). The EP asks the European Commission to revise the framework directive to create national management systems for sex offenders and calls for the prohibition of...