Sex tourism has long been a scourge in the Philippines. But now there's a disturbing new trend in the trafficking of mostly young women and children: vulnerable victims are being lured online and tricked into the trade. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports. Next: a disturbing new trend in the trafficking of mostly young women and children into the sex trade. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Philippines on what police call cyber-trafficking. Sex tourism has long been a scourge in the Philippines, an industry that thrives on trafficked human beings and deep poverty in this nation of million.
Bill Henson is one of the very few indisputably great contemporary Australian artists - a photographer of astonishing talent , whose work is held in the collections of the National Gallery in Canberra, the Guggenheim Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and, in an irony that will soon become apparent, the High Court of Australia. The subject of glowing reviews, various monographs and a small number of lavishly-produced editions the best, Mnemosyne , was prefaced by an erudite appreciation by David Malouf, one of the country's finest writers, and New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl , he also represented his country magnificently at the Venice Biennale. As I wandered through the Australian Pavilion that year, I recall experiencing an emotion conspicuously absent from previous visits; it was actual pride. But late last week, Henson's reputation took something of a battering, when New South Wales police and detectives from the Child Protection and Sex Crimes Unit, acting on a complaint from an anti-child abuse campaigner, confiscated 20 of his photographs from the Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery in Sydney, where his latest exhibition was scheduled to open this week. The matter is currently under investigation, and police have indicated that child pornography charges may be bought against either the artist or the gallery, over images of a year-old girl in a "sexual context". For the record, and according to a friend in Sydney who has seen the images in question, the teenager is naked. She is not engaging in any form of sexual activity.
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The Crown Prosecution Service announced that it would not bring criminal proceedings against the gallery or the artists concerned. Police were called to the Saatchi Gallery in north London last week after complaints that the pictures, taken by two photographers, were indecent and would appeal to paedophiles. But a CPS spokesman said that after careful consideration there was no realistic prospect of any conviction under the Protection of Children Act The spokesman said: "The CPS has advised the Metropolitan Police that proceedings should not be brought against the Saatchi Gallery over photographs exhibited in the gallery.
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