Kailash Satyarthi reiterates need to ban child pornography

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Wednesday called for a complete ban on child pornography on the internet and urged the youth to join his efforts on this.

The child rights activist expressed concern over the recent growth of digital child pornography and said the country needs a law to ban it.

"I have met global representatives and political leaders across the world and have made remarkable progress. I am very sure we will be able to stop all the data service providers from putting up such acts and also no one is able to download them," he told students at Amity University here.

"However, by only stopping websites, these maladies won't go away. We want to remove them completely as it is spoiling the entire generation. And if we have to save the global character, stop online pornography and sexual abuse, voices have to be raised together," Satyarthi said.

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize awardee said he hoped India will be able to lead from the front and the issue is raised during the next UN General Assembly Convention.

Satyarthi was interacting with the students at the screening of the film "The Price of Free", formerly called "Kailash", which depicts his journey as an electrical engineering student who started the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) to rescue children from slavery.

The Derek Doneen-directed film has won an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary and had won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize where it was premiered in 2018.