We welcomes today's announcement by Prime Minister @AlboMP of Australia's $20 million investment to support the Philippines to reform and improve access to its justice system.
Media Release: https://t.co/vu0uJCedLQ
In an urgent hearing, CEOs of the largest social media platforms were called to testify at #Congress about online child exploitation. Urgent action is needed to safeguard children #online. Read more in our latest edition of The Justice Dispatch
https://t.co/GiXZ1w30uB
We welcome Communications Minister @MRowlandMP's announcement to give greater powers to the @eSafetyOffice to ensure tech companies clamp down on child sexual abuse material on their platforms. https://t.co/yc9MJs9UBy
A new study by @UNSW and @JesuitSocialSer found 5% of Australian men reported having sexual feelings toward children and admitted to sexually offending children. They were 25 times more likely to hold views conducive to online child sex offending. https://t.co/VgkcbRaEOt
Forging a strong global response to the online sexual exploitation of children is integral in the fight for justice. We are encouraged by this joint statement, expressing @albomp and @potus' recommitment to tackling this crime through bilateral coordination.
Pleased to meet with @ijmaus recently, to learn more about their work to raise awareness of deceptive recruitment practices & trafficking of persons into online scam centres.
Tech giants may face modern slavery charges under NSW legislation IJM advocated for after NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner, @James_Cockayne called for a criminal investigation for platforms knowingly distributing child sexual abuse material.
Read more: https://t.co/p0XaCWQn0X
Jun Hao* thought he had accepted a customer service job, and only realised that something was terribly wrong when his boss locked the door behind him. He was forced to scam people, or risk getting beaten. Learn more about this heartbreaking crime: https://t.co/gUZPt98cJ2
The team visited our billboard at Wynyard Station, designed to raise awareness on forced scamming, a new form of trafficking! Whilst Australians have been inundated with scam messages, the person on the other side may be a victim of forced scamming: https://t.co/gUZPt98cJ2
Australians have been targeted by scams. However, in this heartbreaking new form of trafficking, IJM has uncovered that there is more than one victim of scamming.
Begin the end of forced scamming: https://t.co/gUZPt98cJ2
Thank you to @ijmaus for meeting with us to discuss the online sexual exploitation of children and #ForcedLabor in cyber scam operations. Learn more about IJM’s latest report release here: https://t.co/HzKLBQVdRi -CD
@USEmbAustralia
#BREAKING: IJM Australia welcomes @eSafetyOffice decision on world-first, enforceable online safety industry codes – and supports her refusal to register draft safety codes not deemed tough enough to deter illegal online content: https://t.co/x1u8JJM7M2
#OSEC#bigtech#childabuse
The report on the review of the Modern Slavery Act has just been tabled in Parliament. Our team is in the process of assessing in relation to IJM's submission.
#auspol#modernslavery#supplychains#humantrafficking
The report from a statutory review of the first 3 years of Australia’s #ModernSlaveryAct was today tabled in Parliament. The review drew on extensive stakeholder feedback and made 30 recommendations to strengthen the Act. Read the Review Report here: https://t.co/K3BkDnKIJm
“This Index serves as a wake-up call that intention without effective action is meaningless. A lack of action has real consequences – 10m more men, women & children are in #modernslavery today because govts have failed to act with the urgency required” -@jacquijlarsen
.@eSafetyOffice pleased that out of this agreement is the formation of the "Australia-United States Joint Council on Combatting Online Child Sexual Exploitation." There will be a full workplan around prevention, policy, protection & proactive change including #safetybydesign 🇦🇺🇺🇸
IJM and our partners have helped rescue 85,000+ children, women, and men from #slavery and violence globally! The fight for #justice is better together. Thank YOU for your generosity and advocacy - you're making freedom and justice unstoppable. Learn more: https://t.co/YiAnDkmG35
Grateful to @Peter_Wehner and @TheAtlantic for artfully weaving together my personal experience that sparked a question and eventually led to the creation of @IJM: “Who’s addressing the problem of violence among the poor?”
A very welcome development. I look forward to working with a federal Anti-Slavery Commissioner to help develop a more joined up response that delivers better outcomes for people, in NSW and beyond.
IJM will continue to advocate for these funds to be used strategically and sustainably to combat #modernslavery (incl. in online #scamming, and online sexual exploitation of children #OSEC) at it source.
Read our media release: https://t.co/184MSaqXMi
#BREAKING > Australia will get a Federal Anti-Slavery Commissioner, thanks to an $8 million allocation in last night's #Budget2023 to establish this office: https://t.co/184MSaqpWK
#auspol#modernslavery
More good news in the Budget is significant funding for:
💲 @eSafetyOffice, with an extra $33.7M per year in addition to existing base funding of $11M
💲 Efforts to combat online scamming, including $58 million to establish a National Anti-Scamming Centre within the @acccgovau