Countries: Venezuela
Variables: IRP-LAW-1, PRN-LAW-1

"The Committee acknowledges the measures taken by the State party to eliminate gender stereotypes, such as the monitoring activities of the National Commission on Telecommunications; the issuance by the Supreme Court of Justice of rulings Nos. 359 and 884, which prohibit, respectively, the publishing of images that contain explicit or implicit sexual content promoting prostitution and the publishing of pornography that contains references to website addresses that can be freely accessed by children and adolescents; and the adoption in 2021 of the Act on the Promotion and Use of Gender-sensitive Language" (6).

Countries: South Korea
Variables: PRN-LAW-1, IIP-PRACTICE-2

"The global #MeToo movement inspired many South Korean feminists to hit the streets and voice their grievances like never before, and they successfully campaigned to legalize abortion and pushed through landmark legal changes on the widespread problem of tech-based sexual abuse, most notably spycam porn crimes" (para 13).

Countries: United States
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"In October, a woman in South Dakota, Krystal Kay Bulin, was sentenced to eight years in prison after she moderated a chat room during sexually explicit livestreams involving a 16-year-old girl. Ms. Bulin, the girl’s temporary guardian, facilitated the livestreams on an app called BuzzCast to help pay for a speeding ticket, according to court records. A Florida man, Christopher John Streeter, has been serving life in prison since 2021 after sending roughly $130,000 over a decade to people in the Philippines to direct the rape of children as young as 12. He paid a premium if the video depicted girls losing their virginity or suffering injuries because of the...more

Countries: Uganda
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"Laws such as the misogynistic anti-pornography law of 2014 has spurred more attacks on female victims rather than perpetrators of the crime" (2).

Countries: Ecuador
Variables: IRP-LAW-1, PRN-LAW-1

"The Code also punishes the crimes of statutory rape, distribution of child pornography and the sale of sexual services" (23).

Countries: Taiwan
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"In direct response to voyeurism, including upskirting and hidden cameras, Taiwan has: increased penalties for voyeurism and the distribution of voyeuristic material, increased funding for police investigations and technology to detect hidden cameras, established a national database of individuals convicted of voyeurism, increased public awareness campaigns to educate individuals on how to detect and report hidden cameras. In Taiwan the government has also established a national database of individuals convicted of voyeurism, which is maintained by the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau. The purpose of this database is to keep track of individuals who have been convicted of voyeurism, and to make this information available to the public. The database...more

Countries: France
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"The Paris Court of Appeal today ordered the complete blocking of several pornographic websites, including Xhamster and Tukif, over their failure to roll out solid age verification systems. The Court of Appeal ruled that children's general interest was "an overriding consideration which may justify infringement of other rights such as freedom of expression or communication. "Giving priority to the protection of the private lives of adult consumers, by ruling out age verification, is incompatible with the protection of minors," the court said" (Para 1, 2).

Countries: Peru
Variables: PRN-LAW-1, PRN-LAW-2

"Legislative Decree No. 1410 defines the crimes of harassment, sexual harassment, sexual blackmail and the dissemination of images, audiovisual content, or audios with sexual content. However, gender stereotypes limit the appreciation of the evidence" (8).

Countries: Japan
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

“In June 2022, victims of these porn recruitment traps joined forces with lawyers and pushed through an industry-changing bill to prevent the exploitation of adult video (AV) performers. The law was tailored specifically to victims who had been lured into the industry through deceit and lies - over those who had willingly entered into the world of pornography through safer and more consensual channels. The AV Law gives these workers the right to a one-month period between the signing of a contract and the filming of a video, as well as four months between the filming of the video and its release. Producers are also required to give a copy...more

Countries: Canada
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"In late January of this year, a group of teens between the ages of 15 and 17 went to Toronto police to report what they thought was a crime. They said a boy they knew had made naked pictures of all of them — his classmates, friends and girls he only knew through social media. Using artificial intelligence tools, he put their faces onto someone else’s naked body, creating explicit “deepfake” porn of them without their consent, essentially out of thin air. To the girls and their parents, the act should have been illegal. However, in a move that illustrates a growing dilemma facing investigators and lawmakers tasked with handling...more

Countries: Brazil
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"All types of violence against minors increased, including child maltreatment (up 13.8%), child and youth pornography (7%) and sexual exploitation (16.4%). 'It would be hard to present a worse scenario in relation to violence against children and adolescents than that which emerged in 2022,' the report reads" (para 4).

Countries: Japan
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

“In June 2022, victims of these porn recruitment traps joined forces with lawyers and pushed through an industry-changing bill to prevent the exploitation of adult video (AV) performers. The law was tailored specifically to victims who had been lured into the industry through deceit and lies - over those who had willingly entered into the world of pornography through safer and more consensual channels. The AV Law gives these workers the right to a one-month period between the signing of a contract and the filming of a video, as well as four months between the filming of the video and its release. Producers are also required to give a copy...more

Countries: Belize
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"In 2013, the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Prohibition) Act (CSEC) was passed. The CSEC Act gave effect to the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. It defined several types of commercial sexual exploitation of children and tougher penalties for perpetrators. It made provisions for victim support and restitution" (3). "The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Prohibition Act of 2012 and the Trafficking in Person (Prohibition Act) 2013 both offer better protection for victims of these crimes. Both were developed to comply with international treaties. In the case of the CSEC Act, it included...more

Countries: South Korea
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

“Park made her name as a student journalist, when she uncovered an online sex ring, where young teenagers were being blackmailed into filming themselves performing sexual and degrading acts. The ringleaders were sent to prison as a result of her investigation” (para 14).

Countries: Bahamas
Variables: PRN-LAW-1

"Child pornography is against the law. A person who produces child pornography is subject to life imprisonment; dissemination or possession of child pornography calls for a penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment" (13).