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In brief: UN agency meet to tackle Net pornography

By Polly Raymond

Published: Monday 07 September 1998

Unesco - the cultural agency of the UN - has announced plans to discuss the growing problem of child pornography distributed by the Internet.

The Director General of Unesco, Frederico Mayor, reportedly said a meeting is needed because a crackdown on pornography is long overdue. The meeting will to take place in January 1999.

The plans join a wave of recent initiatives launched to tackle the problem including a filtering program introduced into the UK in March by the Internet Watch Foundation.