{"id":5102,"date":"2015-12-14T11:58:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecpat.be\/en\/?p=5102"},"modified":"2017-12-18T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:54:14","slug":"fight-against-impunity-of-transnational-child-sex-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecpat.be\/en\/fight-against-impunity-of-transnational-child-sex-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight against impunity of transnational child sex offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Twenty years ago, Belgium passed a <strong>law<\/strong> facilitating the prosecution of transnational child sex offenders before Belgian courts. This tool reflects the willingness to take strong action against those who were\u00a0called \u201c<strong>child sex tourists<\/strong>\u201d but what is the real impact of this law? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How many offenders have been prosecuted?<br \/>\nWhat were the successes and challenges of the legal procedures?<br \/>\nAnd finally, is one law, only, sufficient?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These are some of the many elements discussed in this <a href=\"http:\/\/ecpat.be\/en\/our-actions\/analyses-and-studies\/analyses-2015-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> which seeks to be accessible to both the general public and professionals (translation in English available soon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago, Belgium passed a law facilitating the prosecution of transnational child sex offenders before Belgian courts. This tool reflects the willingness to take strong action against those who were\u00a0called \u201cchild sex tourists\u201d but what is the real impact of this law? How many offenders have been prosecuted? What were the successes and challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8170],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fight against impunity of transnational child sex offenders - ECPAT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ecpat.be\/en\/fight-against-impunity-of-transnational-child-sex-offenders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fight against impunity of transnational child sex offenders - ECPAT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twenty years ago, Belgium passed a law facilitating the prosecution of transnational child sex offenders before Belgian courts. 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