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Nigel Williams (died March 2006) was a British children's rights activist, known for his engagement against child abuse on the internet. In 1995, he founded the Childnet International. [1] In 2003, he was appointed as the first Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, a position he held until his death. [2]
Sammy Woodhouse (born 20 June 1985) [1] is an activist against child sexual abuse.She was a victim of the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, [2] which she helped expose by giving an anonymous interview to Andrew Norfolk of The Times. [3]
Anti-pedophile graffiti in Poland. Anti-pedophile activism encompasses social actions against pedophiles. It also includes acts of anti-pedophile citizen vigilantism conducted by vigilante groups, [1] [2] some of which have operated alongside government agencies in countries such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Ronald Bennett OFM (born 1935, died 2024) was a Franciscan friar and a former spiritual director, sports master and bursar of Gormanston College, County Meath, Ireland, who was convicted of sexual assault against some of his pupils. His faculties for hearing confession and celebrating mass publicly have been withdrawn.
Mairead Maguire [3] [6] (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. [7]
If you suspect child abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Child or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline ...
The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA) was one of a range of measures introduced by the Irish Government to investigate the extent and effects of abuse on children from 1936 onwards. Commencing its work in 1999, it was commonly known in Ireland as the Laffoy Commission after its chair, Justice Mary Laffoy .
The Irish Government established this Inquiry on 28 March 2006 to deal with episodes of child sexual abuse between 1975 and 2004. The public was invited to make submissions to the Inquiry on 25 May 2006 and it is speculated that the extent of abuse in Dublin is likely to be significantly greater or even less than that exposed in The Ferns Report .