またECPATによる上記の数字ですが、1997年のCork大学の調査によるとインターネット上の児童ポルノ73%は日本が発信元であるという研究があります。そしてCork大学といえば、ECPAT御用達のMax TalorとEthel Quayleがいらっしゃる大学ですから、ECPATの数字はMax TalorとEthel Quayleが由来でしょう。
The web is a source of child pornography on the Internet but it is not the major source. In a study carried out by the University of Cork, Ireland, between June and November 1997 sexualised images of under age girls on the web were coming principally from Japan, with 73% of all sites found originating there. The next highest source was the USA with 14%, followed by the UK at 3%. A greater number of sites offered sexualised images of boys but no comparable percentages were provided.33 With recent changes in the Japanese law, these numbers have fallen dramatically.
Project Babylon Analysis of major international distributors of child pornography
Child Pornography on the Internet Interpol-ECPAT Experts’ meeting
INTERPOL's General Secretariat in Lyon, France, hosted two consecutive meetings at the end of May 1998 on the subjects of crimes against children and child pornography on the Internet. First, more than 70 members of the INTERPOL Standing Working Party on Offences against Minors, representing some 30 countries, will take stock of their current achievements, including a unique handbook for specialist police officers dealing with crimes against children, and plan their forward strategy in raising awareness and combating these crimes. The meetingl not be accessible to the press was the 11th meeting of INTERPOL Standing Working Party on Crimes against Minors. The working party was created in May 1992 as an expert group to study responses to a questionnaire on crimes against children circulated by INTERPOL to all its member countries.
This is immediately followed by the ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) meeting on child pornography on the Internet. More than fifty participants from over twenty countries represented private sector Internet service providers, lawyers, non-governmental organisations (ngos) as well as law enforcement services. This multi-disciplinary forum was opened jointly by Mr RE Kendall, INTERPOL's General Secretary, and ECPAT President Mr Ron O'Grady, who highlighted the way in which the Internet is evidence of the current breaking down of the cultural and geographic boundaries relating to time, space and social identities. He also talked about the borderless world of Cyberspace and emphasise the need for extra-territorial or international laws against the abuse and exploitation of children.
For further information see Child Pornography on the Internet: Protecting Children in the Computer Age, Experts Meeting, Lyon, France. May 28-29 1998. See also ECPAT & CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ON THE INTERNET pages. ECPAT's position, Lyon meeting related information, opening address by Ron O'Grady, the Chairman of ECPAT during the Lyon meeting, and the summary report of the Lyon meeting in May 1998.
To promote international cooperation and coordination to fight child pornography on the Internet, an international meeting of experts' will be held in Lyon, France on 28-29 May,1998. The Consultation is jointly convened by ECPAT and INTERPOL.