Korea Women’s Human Rights Agency, first policy debate on digital sex crimes

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hong Jun-seok = The Korea Women's Human Rights Agency announced on the 13th that it will hold the '1st Digital Sexual Crime Response Policy Discussion' at the Seoul Women's Plaza International Conference Hall at 2 p.m. on the 14th.

The topic of the discussion was 'Measures to Strengthen Laws, Policies and Victim Support Systems in Response to Digital Sex Crimes', and was designed to examine changes in the distribution environment for digital sex crimes due to technological development and the limitations of the current victim support system.

The discussion session will be filled with presentations on topics such as 'Practical limitations and improvement measures in the current digital sex crime victim support system' and 'Launch of an integrated support group and development plan for cooperation system with related organizations', as well as discussion on 'Methods to strengthen law and policy and victim support system in response to digital sex crime'.

Director Park Gwang-soo of the Promotion Agency emphasized, "As technology and the distribution environment for digital sex crimes are rapidly changing, it is important to have a response system in which each step is organically linked, from deletion and blocking of the victim video, investigation, victim support, and prevention of redistribution."

The Promotion Agency plans to hold policy debates every year, starting with this debate.