Child pornography is a growing concern within India. Through still and video cameras, sexually abusive images of children are produced. These images are accessed via the internet and increasingly now over mobile phones. These technologies also facilitate organised sexual abuse and violence against children by networks of commercial buyers, sex tourists, paedophiles and traffickers. It is linked with several actors across borders and has direct links to tourism. One country can be a place where production takes place, the child used for the pornographic production could be from a second country, and the final pornographic product could be or end up in a third country. This paper presses home the concerns on child pornography and its links to tourism. Its analyses in brief the current legal framework in India concerning this issue and calls upon the national and state legislature, the tourism, travel, hospitality industry and other stakeholders to take necessary action to address this issue.
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