Launch of a campaign to protect children and youth against sexual exploitation in tourism
Bern, 2.11.2010 - Protection of children and youth against sexual exploitation in tourism is being greatly intensified - Switzerland, Germany and Austria are working together to fight child sex tourism across borders. The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO and ECPAT Switzerland, the institute of Child Protection Switzerland that works to prevent child prostitution, launched the trilateral “Campaign to Protect Children and Youth against Sexual Exploitation in Tourism” on 2 November 2010 in Bern. At the centre of the campaign are a widely distributed video spot and new opportunities to report information online in cases of suspicion. For this purpose, Switzerland has developed the world’s first online registration form of its kind: www.stopchildsextourism.ch.