ACTA’s board is showing its support for Beyond Borders, the Canadian affiliate of ECPAT, the leading international group battling sex tourism around the globe and the associated sexual abuse of children in a number of countries. Their online banner ad has been created to raise awareness of this serious issue.
Open Jaw has prepared several standard web ad formats of ACTA's Beyond Borders ad to assist with the campaign. We are inviting other travel industry members to request a copy of the ad (in French or English) to post to their sites. Please contact info@gk.openjaw.xyz advising what size is most suitable.
Beyond Borders was founded in 1996 by Rosalind Prober and children’s rights lawyer Mark Eric Hecht.
After becoming aware that sexual offenders against children can sexually abuse children abroad with impunity, including Canadian children, Rosalind started working in 1993 to close that loophole in the Canadian Criminal Code. Her activism resulted in the “Prober Amendment” to Canada’s child sex tourism legislation (1996) and broadened the legislation to include all sexual crimes against children as extraterritorial crimes. Rosalind is also a founder of Canada’s national tipline to report online sexual victimization, www.cybertip.ca.
As president of Beyond Borders, Rosalind has led the organization’s growth to become a bilingual, national, volunteer-driven nonprofit working to stop global child sexual exploitation. In 1999, Beyond Borders became the Canadian affiliate of ECPAT International (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), a worldwide NGO headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. Rosalind has served on the ECPAT board since 2005.
Rosalind has won many awards for her work to protect children and is recognized throughout the world for her expertise and activism against child sex tourism, Internet luring, sexual abuse imagery (child pornography), sexual abuse in polygamy, commercial child sexual exploitation and trafficking. The Body Shop recently began sponsoring the work of ECPAT and Beyond Borders.
