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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 4]
Lawyer convicted of child pornography
Thursday, 9 March 2006, 3:14 pm | Stop Demand
A decision by the New Zealand Law Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal handed down in Christchurch today, saw Queenstown lawyer Wayne McKeague narrowly escaping being struck off the law practitioners register. More >>
Under-aged prostitution - police inaction
Friday, 27 January 2006, 3:08 pm | Stop Demand
Promises by politicians, that the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 would result in hefty measures taken against sexual exploiters of the under-aged, have since proved meaningless, says Stop Demand Foundation. Under the law, those who buy sex from persons under ... More >>
Child Sex Image Offending Sentence Encouraging
Saturday, 15 October 2005, 11:12 am | Stop Demand
Today’s decision by the Hamilton District Court to impose a substantial jail term to a man convicted of distributing and possessing child sex abuse images was encouraging, says a group working to combat the trade. More >>
Repeat offender not deterred by weak sentence
Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 2:45 pm | Stop Demand
An offender let off lightly two years ago, for trading images the Judge said were as bad as could be imagined, was yesterday back before the Court for similar offending. More >>
Sentence For Brothel Owner Manifestly Inadequate
Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 4:58 pm | Stop Demand
Yesterday’s decision by the Wellington District Court, to hand out a meagre 300 hours community work to a woman who sold two girls aged 14 and 17 years of age for sex, was extremely disappointing says one group working to end the sexual exploitation ... More >>
$6,000 Fine To Man Who Received $48,000
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 8:42 am | Stop Demand
$6,000 Fine To Man Who Received $48,000 For Promoting Sex Abuse Of Children And Rape Of Women More >>
Name Suppression Sends Wrong Message
Monday, 15 August 2005, 12:12 am | Stop Demand
Today’s decision by the Dunedin District Court, to grant name suppression to a university student convicted on 12 charges of collecting and distributing videos and pictures of toddlers and children being sexually abused by adult men and being sexually posed, ... More >>
Capill apologises to NZ but not to his victims
Thursday, 14 July 2005, 3:44 pm | Stop Demand
The disgraced former Christian Heritage party leader and police prosecutor was today sentenced to nine years prison for multiple child sex offences including rape. More >>
Capill pleads guilty to child sex crimes
Tuesday, 28 June 2005, 3:00 pm | Stop Demand
Today’s guilty pleas by the disgraced former Christian Heritage party leader and police prosecutor were welcomed by those calling for action to stop sexual violence against children. More >>
Sentence trivialises sex violence against children
Tuesday, 3 May 2005, 9:26 am | Stop Demand
The paltry fine imposed on a lawyer convicted of importing objectionable material trivialises the sexual exploitation of children and young people, says an organization working to combat the trade. More >>
Toughening up on possessors of child sex abuse
Wednesday, 20 April 2005, 4:17 pm | Stop Demand
Today’s sentence of a hefty fine imposed on a beneficiary who possessed child sex abuse images, was lauded as a step in the right direction by those working to combat the trade. More >>
Courts sending right message, Government is not
Wednesday, 2 February 2005, 12:07 am | Stop Demand
The jail sentence handed down today to a Nelson man, Jason Gorman, for distributing child sex abuse images was welcomed by those working to combat the trade. More >>
Government slow to act on revising weak laws
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 8:51 am | Stop Demand
Figures release today by the Department of Internal Affairs’ Censorship Compliance Unit show that in 2004 only seven out of 24 offenders convicted of possessing or trading child sex abuse images received prison sentences. More >>
Inadequate Sentence For Child Porn Trader
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 4:41 pm | Stop Demand
Two community groups who work to combat the trade in child sex abuse images believe the sentence handed down yesterday to 45-year old Wellington man, Barry George Stove, is manifestly inadequate. More >>
Prison & Lifting Name Suppression 'Right Message'
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 12:01 am | Stop Demand
Prison And Lifting Of Interim Name Suppression Order Sends Right Message, Says Child Advocacy Groups More >>
Leave To Apply For Home Detention Inappropriate
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 9:32 am | Stop Demand
Today the Tauranga District Court sentenced 45-year-old Te Puke man Ian George Thomas to eight months jail and ordered forfeiture and destruction of his computer and diskettes, for collecting and distributing Internet images of children being sexually abused. ... More >>
