Media Advisory - Lolli - The Exhibit Nobody Wants to Talk About

TORONTO, July 8, 2019 /CNW/ - Child pornography is a global, social epidemic and Canadians need to demand a safer world for children.  Current efforts have not been enough to address the growing availability of this abusive material. Over the last few years, Cybertip.ca, Canada's tipline for addressing the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children, known as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), moved from managing approximately 4,000 reports from the public per month to processing 160,000 reports per month via Project Arachnid, an automated web crawler designed to detect child sexual abuse images online.

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is leading this fight against online CSAM worldwide and is calling on industry to mobilize, prioritizing the protection and rights of children. To raise awareness about the issue, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection has developed Lolli, The Exhibit Nobody Wants to Talk About, tapping in to the current cultural trend of Instagrammable installations. Lolli is a term sex offenders use to refer to child victims.

Interview Opportunities:

Please RSVP with your preferred interviewee to schedule in a time slot:

• Lianna McDonald, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Child Protection
• Sharon Hanlon, Provincial Coordinator, Ontario Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet, Ontario Provincial Police

Content Opportunities: There will be opportunities to capture content to visualize this growing epidemic in Canada. Opportunities include:

• Imagery of the installation, made of thousands of lollipops
• Staggering statistics and survivor stories

SOURCE Canadian Centre for Child Protection

Jessica Hoffeldt, PR Executive, No Fixed Address Inc., [email protected], 647-269-7438

Related Links

www.protectchildren.ca