To live in a world free of sexual violence and sexual exploitation

To promote a world free of all forms of sexual violence against, and sexual exploitation of, children with a particular focus on challenging the demand for sex with children

Stop Demand

• Raises public awareness on the extent of all forms of sexual violence against children
• Calls for global action to stop all forms of sexual violence against children
• Addresses demand issues within the child sex trade and other forms of sexual violence against children
• Works with government, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies to stop sexual violence against children
• Mobilizes the community, in particular the male community, to stop all forms of sexual violence against children

Stop Demand's mandate is taken from Articles 34 and 35 of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989, which states:

• Article 34
  "States Parties undertake to protect the child from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. For these purposes, States Parties shall in particular take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent:
  (a) The inducement or coercion of a child to engage in any unlawful sexual activity;
  (b) The exploitative use of children in prostitution or other unlawful sexual practices;
  (c) The exploitative use of children in pornographic performances and materials."
  
• Article 35
  States Parties shall take all appropriate national, bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent the abduction of, the sale of or traffic in children for any purpose or in any form.

Other international instruments include:

• the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2002)
• the Declaration and Agenda for Action against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (2001 & 1996)
• the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the Convention on Trans-national Organised Crime (2000)
• the ILO (International Labor Organisation) 182 for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor (1999)
• the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination of Women (1979)

Stop Demand Foundation, trading as Stop Demand, is a non-profit, incorporated charitable trust.  Stop Demand has a global focus and is registered in New Zealand. 

Stop Demand is administered by four trustees.  They have wide-ranging professional backgrounds spanning law, health, mental health, domestic violence, sexual violence, counselling, social work, international law enforcement, and computer forensic investigation and analysis.  The trustees have extensive professional backgrounds in combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children at an international level.

Stop Demand is funded by donations from individuals and groups worldwide who share the same vision and who recognize the need to address demand issues.  You can donate online by clicking here.

A vital part of Stop Demand's work is awareness raising and a call for action.  Have your group be more informed on the issues.  Book our speaker, Denise Ritchie, for your next conference or special event.  Click here, for details.

If our hope is to end the child sex trade,
we must stop demand