"Cub Reporter" wrote in message
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> ...but OK at home. Regardless of the laws and customs of the foreign
> country (and whether you took the 16-year-old with you presumably).
>
> News article:
> =========================================
> UK signs up to new global approach in protecting children from .ual
> abuse
>
> eGov monitor, UK: 9 May 2008
> http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/18733
>
> Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker today stepped up the Government's
> commitment to the global protection of young people, having signed the
> Council of Europe's Convention on the Protection of Children from
> .ual Exploitation and Abuse. The signature coincided with the second
> anniversary of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
> (CEOP).
>
> The Convention sets standards to ensure that countries criminalise the
> .ual exploitation and abuse of children and adopt similar standards
> of investigation and prosecution of these crimes. It also includes
> measures on exchanging the identity of convicted . offenders with
> other countries. The UK is aiming to ratify the Convention as soon as
> possible and it will come into effect once ratified by five of the
> signature countries.
> [...]
>
> As a response to the Convention, the Government has amended the .ual
> Offences Act 2003 to remove the condition of dual criminality in
> relation to .ual offences committed by British nationals against
> children overseas.
>
> This means that a British national will not be able to target a
> particular country with less stringent protection of children than
> England and Wales or Northern Ireland - Scotland has indicated its
> intention to make a similar legislative change.
>
> We will now be able to prosecute UK nationals here for a .ual
> offence committed against a child anywhere in the world, so long as
> the act committed would be a relevant offence in this country. We have
> also raised the age of a child for these purposes from 16 to 18. This
> has all been achieved through the Criminal Justice and Immigration
> Bill which received Royal Assent on Thursday 8 May.
Ah so if you go on holiday in Saudi Arabia you can be flogged for drinking
alcohol in the UK.
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