Nationwide Anti-Child Porno Campaign on the Drawing Board

Hello there! It's quite sometime that our blog has been updated. Don't worry all is not dead in our campaign. Some of our partners in Davao and Cebu have started their own education and information activities on the "hidden" protection issue of child pornography.

On March 23, 2007, UNICEF through Atty. Ani Saguisag called a meeting at their office at the 31st floor of the RCBC Plaza in Makati to discuss the possibility of making a nation-wide AC porno campaign. The idea stems from the enthusiasm shown by UNICEF's partners in taking child porno as an emerging protection advocacy issue in their own backyard. Last year, Cebu City spearheaded a massive community education campaign on child porno while Davao City also launched its campaign on December 12, 2006 in time of the commemoration of the anti-child trafficking day.

Attending the said meeting were Ani of UNICEF, Connie of CWC, Jo of ECPAT, Nena of Share a Child, Louie of PLACC, Emi of Kabataan Consortium, and Yolly, Carlo, Edgar, and Dong representing AKAP Bata and various private groups in Manila.

The group came up with the following general recommendations (subject to further discussions and meetings):

(1) come up with a nationwide campaign under the proposed name ACPA (Anti-Child Pornography Alliance) with regional representations such as Mindanao (c/o Kabataan Consortium thru the Kalitawhan Network and church groups); Cebu (c/o Share a Child); NCR and Luzon (c/o PLACC-AKAP Bata);

(2) the proposed main strategies of ACPA are: (a) awareness-raising on child pornography, (b) national legislative advocacy-that may be translated later into localized legislations; (c) coming up with child protection standards and protocols; and (d) involving other stakeholders against child porno;

(3) there shall be an Ad Hoc secretariat in the national level and regional or provincial focal groups to help coordinate and synchronize the nationally-initiated campaign activities. For the time being, UNICEF through Atty. Saguisag shall act as the secretariat of ACPA;

(4) each participating group is independent and can launch parallel, similar, or coordinated AC porno campaigns in its area of operations;

(5) to hold a capability training among ACPA partners sometime in May 2007; and,

(6) to continue drafting and pushing for the passage of AC Porno Bill--c/o Louie of PLACC and production of relevant IEC materials.


So here we go... it's a long and bouncy yet exciting journey ahead to protect Filipino children. We hope you will be with us. Bye for now.


If you are interested to help the campaign, please contact acporno@gmail.com