NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday urged the international community to develop a consensus for a global ban on child pornography.
Speaking at the 25th conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth in Ottawa, Canada, he noted that in a bid to eradicate sexual exploitation of children, several changes in the existing laws in India are being brought to ensure harsher punishment for the perpetrators.
Birla said child pornography has also been made punishable.
“He called upon international community to develop a consensus for a global ban on child pornography,” a statement issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat here said. (AGENCIES)
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