| Caroline Humer, International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, US |
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Caroline Humer is a Senior Program Manager with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) in the United States. ICMEC promotes the safety and well-being of children through activism, policy development, and multinational coordination. ICMEC’s programmes and initiatives are uniting the world and providing international solutions to the problems of child abduction and exploitation. Caroline Humer coordinates international efforts in building policies and structures for law enforcement and non-government agencies. She presents at local and international events on the 2006 ICMEC published Child Pornography: Model Legislation and Global Review report. The research proposes model legislation in reference to child pornography offenses as well as a review containing the child pornography legislation of the world countries. Caroline Humer manages the Global Missing Children’s Network (GMCN), a resource that uses technology to disseminate photographs of and information about missing children. The GMCN is a network currently comprised of web sites from 17 countries. These websites feed into a central, multilingual database featuring information about and photographs of missing children. This enables each country to quickly and easily create posters using the information they enter into the missing children database. Caroline Humer organizes annual conference for the members where trends and best practices are shared and built. Caroline Humer previously worked as a Senior Analyst in the Exploited Child Division (ECD) at ICMEC’s sister organization, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). As a Senior Analyst in ECD, she was responsible for investigating reports of child sexual exploitation received through NCMEC’s CyberTipline. She also coordinated information sharing with law enforcement agencies around the world. Caroline Humer holds a BA in Business Studies from Nottingham Trent Business School in England. ABSTRACT 29 September, Wednesday, 12.00 - 12.25
The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) is leading a global movement to protect children from sexual exploitation and abduction. The Koons Family Institute on International Law & Policy (The Koons Family Institute) is the in‐house research arm of ICMEC. The Koons Family Institute conducts and commissions original research into the status of child sexual exploitation and child protection legislation around the world and collaborates with other partners in the field to identify and measure threats to children and ways ICMEC can advocate change to help make children safer. (1) exists with specific regard to child pornography; (2) provides a definition of child pornography; (3) criminalizes computer‐ facilitated offenses; (4) criminalizes the knowing possession of child pornography, regardless of the intent to distribute; (5) and requires Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to report suspected child pornography to law enforcement or to some other mandated agency. In the summer of 2009, ICMEC conducted a thorough update of the research on existing child pornography legislation, expanding its review beyond the 187 Interpol member countries to include 196 countries. Recent report can be found at: http://www.icmec.org/en_X1/English__6th_Edition.pdf |
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