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Stop Demand
Calls for action to stop sexual violence
Stop Demand works to reduce demand that drives the global sex trade. It works to identify, challenge and seek a shift in attitudes and beliefs that underpin and sustain all forms of sexual violence, sexual exploitation and sexual denigration of women and children. Stop Demand's key platform is education - through public awareness raising, calling for local and global action, co-ordinating campaigns, mobilising the community in particular the male community, media engagement, and collaborating with governmental and non-governmental agencies.
Stop Demand - Latest News [Page 3]
Prolific sex exploiter resumes work with children
Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 4:57 pm | Stop Demand
The “prominent” Manawatu man who was convicted in 2010 for downloading 290,000 objectionable images, mainly of young girls, has moved to Auckland and is back working in his profession where he has direct access to children including young girls. More >>
Comedian’s child sex conviction welcomed
Friday, 27 July 2012, 1:36 pm | Stop Demand
Today’s conviction of a well-known comedian for sexual assault on his young daughter was welcomed by Stop Demand, a group tackling sexual violence. The man was sentenced to eight months home detention. More >>
Sex trafficking under spotlight
Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 5:04 pm | Stop Demand
New Zealand is a source country for underage girls subjected to internal sex trafficking, says the latest US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released today. More >>
NZ’s role in sparking global online sting praised
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 1:43 pm | Stop Demand
A global sting across 20 countries has netted some 55 key suspects in the worldwide distribution of child sex abuse images, thanks to New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs’ Censorship Compliance Unit. More >>
Comedian’s resentence on child sex charge welcomed
Wednesday, 18 April 2012, 1:42 pm | Stop Demand
The Auckland High Court has ruled that a well-known comedian, last year discharged without conviction despite admitting sexually assaulting his young daughter, is to be resentenced. More >>
3-year jail term for organising child sex tour
Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 1:26 pm | Stop Demand
A 48-year-old Auckland man, convicted last November for organising a child sex tour to Thailand, was today sentenced to three years in jail. Today’s precedent-setting sentence was handed down at the Auckland High Court by Justice Wylie. Name suppression ... More >>
Man guilty of organising child sex tour
Friday, 11 November 2011, 4:49 pm | Stop Demand
A 47-year-old motel and property owner has been found guilty of organising a child sex tour to Thailand but not guilty of promoting such tours. More >>
Trial begins for child sex tour accused
Monday, 31 October 2011, 10:01 am | Stop Demand
The trial of a 47-year-old motel and property manager, charged with organising child sex tours to Asia, is set to begin today. More >>
Child Advocacy Group Slams Court of Appeal Ruling
Thursday, 21 July 2011, 10:36 am | Stop Demand
The ruling by the Court of Appeal, released today, to give permanent name suppression to a man who fuelled demand for child rape images, has angered advocacy group Stop Demand Foundation. More >>
Name Suppression Under Fire
Monday, 8 February 2010, 9:47 am | Stop Demand
A decision to grant permanent name suppression to a prominent Manawatu man who downloaded more than 300,000 pornographic images, many of young girls, has come under fire by child advocacy group Stop Demand Foundation. More >>
Child prostitution trivialised by Manukau Courts
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 10:34 am | Stop Demand
Men convicted of buying sex from children in South Auckland are being treated far too leniently by the Courts, says advocacy group Stop Demand Foundation. More >>
Pornography And Sexual Violence Demonstration
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 10:28 am | Stop Demand
Auckland Women’s Centre and Stop Demand Foundation will today be raising awareness on the links between pornography and sexual violence against women and children. More >>
Five years prison for recidivist offender
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 5:03 pm | Stop Demand
Stephen Laing, a 25-year old computer technician from West Auckland, was today sentenced in the Waitakere District Court for distributing and possessing child sex abuse images. It was Laing’s fourth conviction for such crimes. More >>
Sex buyer charged – first for South Auckland
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 10:00 am | Stop Demand
A recent decision by Police not to prosecute a man who admitted buying sex from a minor has been reversed. The initial decision came under fire from Stop Demand Foundation which works to combat sexual exploitation. More >>
Men need to step up to the mark
Thursday, 25 October 2007, 3:02 pm | Stop Demand
Stop Demand Foundation, which calls for action to stop sexual violence against women and children, says the latest study confirming disturbing levels of child sexual abuse challenges us to ‘re-think’ our past strategies in dealing with issues ... More >>
78% of sex crimes committed against children
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 11:15 am | Stop Demand
Despite growing community concern over unacceptable physical violence meted out to many Kiwi kids, the scourge of sexual crimes against children in this country remains largely invisible. More >>
World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse
Sunday, 19 November 2006, 12:17 am | Stop Demand
Convictions of a Porirua step-father for the seven-year sexual abuse of a step-daughter and of a US soldier for his part in the gang rape of a 14-year old Iraqi girl before her murder, are but two of millions of cases of sexual violence against children ... More >>
SPCA campaign trivialises child sex abuse
Monday, 10 July 2006, 1:45 pm | Stop Demand
An SPCA campaign claiming that “a sexual offender has moved into [your] neighbourhood” and “has violated females as young as 5 months old” has come under fire by Stop Demand Foundation, an organisation that calls for action to stop sexual violence ... More >>
Gaps In Stocktake Of Child Exploitation
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 9:53 am | Stop Demand
A Stocktake on New Zealand’s National Plan of Action against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children has some glaring gaps in it, says long-time campaigner Denise Ritchie of Stop Demand Foundation. More >>
S Auckland man fined $20,000 for child sex images
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 10:42 am | Stop Demand
A 37-year old business owner from South Auckland has been fined $20,000 for possession of child sex abuse images. More >>
