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Pages tagged "Melinda Tankard Reist"


‘He Chose Porn Over Me’- Women Harmed By Men Who Use Porn global launch

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · August 05, 2022 11:53 PM · 1 reaction

Robert Jensen launches book, contributors speak of trauma – and rebuilding

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Collective Shout in UK: MTR + Caitlin Roper to speak at FiLiA conference

Posted on News by Collective Shout · July 26, 2022 9:05 AM · 1 reaction
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"Ask the boys to stop making sexual moaning sounds in class": MTR piece in Eureka Street

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · July 25, 2022 6:32 PM · 1 reaction

Melinda Tankard Reist writes for Eureka Street on the phenomenon of boys sexual moaning in class. 

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The Virtual Death of Nurture: MTR in Case Quarterly

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · January 16, 2022 4:03 PM · 1 reaction

"Adults have allowed the dismantling of a secure base of attachment: the need for connection, support and nurturing remains unfulfilled, resulting in a mental, emotional and spiritual health crisis." 

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The Other Virus: Online predators, porn culture, sex dolls and robots, harms to women in COVID lockdown – podcasts, FB lives, webinars - listen here

Posted on News by Caitlin Roper · July 08, 2020 12:17 PM
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Speaking out against the exploitation of women and children: Collective Shout cited in NSW Modern Slavery Act report  

Posted on News by Lyn Kennedy · April 28, 2020 7:22 PM

Report cites Collective Shout and Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist

Following its 2019 Inquiry into the Modern Slavery Act 2018 and Associated Matters, the New South Wales Legislative Council tabled its final report last month. The Act makes new provisions regarding child sexual exploitation material through the addition of the following offenses to the NSW Crimes Act 1900: 

a new aggravated offence in relation to using a child to produce child abuse material, and a new offence of providing information to assist a person to avoid detection for a child abuse material offence. 

We welcomed these new provisions which will strengthen capacity for holding offenders to account for sex abuse crimes committed against children. 

The report contained several references to Collective Shout’s submission and evidence presented by Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist who appeared for us at the Inquiry hearing last November, including the following quote from our submission:

New South Wales law must ensure that any person who is facilitating such horrific acts as the abuse on demand of babies and other young children, wherever the abuse might be occurring, through a digital platform operating in or accessed from New South Wales, is subject to an offence, whether the person administering or assisting to administer the digital platform does so intending it be used for that purpose or after becoming aware that it is being used for that purpose fails to take all reasonable steps to prevent that use. 

Contrary to our recommendations against watering down the Act in relation to digital platforms the amended Bill now excludes the previously proposed new criminal offence of administering a digital platform used to deal with child abuse material. Conflicts between Federal and State law was cited by the committee. Several contributors to the Inquiry objected to this deletion, noting that its inclusion was stronger than the provisions of Commonwealth legislation to hold digital platforms and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) accountable for hosting child sex abuse material. We shared concerns that its exclusion will provide loopholes for such offenders. As Melinda Tankard Reist pointed out at the hearing:

The child victim is a part of the slavery supply chain. Combating modern slavery has to include combating the global epidemic of this pay-per-view torture of children in the growing trade of predators commissioning the live sexual abuse of a child viewed via their computer screens and facilitated by their ISPs. ISPs and telcos including Telstra, Optus, iiNet and TPG are providing the infrastructure for the live streaming of the abuse of children to be possible. ISPs are part of a chain which contributes to the distribution of child sexual exploitation material but they have not been brought to account.

Melinda Tankard Reist at the Inquiry hearing, 4 November 2019

In her verbal evidence, MTR commended other contributors to the Inquiry, including International Justice Mission Australia (IJM) and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia (CATWA), as well as the expert advice of UK Anti-Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland. We were pleased to see Hyland’s six-point strategy for ending modern slavery featured in the report, which highlights the need for all nations to mandate - through legislation - a child-exploitation - and human-trafficking-free internet, as well as the outcomes of the proposed legislation which, according to Hyland, include “leading businesses into generating ethical profits free from exploitation and modern slavery”. We anticipate this outcome will have positive consequences for the broader community - women and girls particularly who stand to benefit from corporates who are unwilling to profit from exploitative activities.

While not mentioned in the Final Report, we noted CATWA’s significant observation that the Act’s proposed minimum $50 million annual turnover threshold for mandatory supply chain reporting will fail to capture agents of the sex industry - an industry in which women are at greatest risk of trafficking and slavery. In its submission CATWA concluded:

A requirement for sex industry businesses to report would be a first step in the fight against modern slavery. 

We strongly support this recommendation and would advocate for its inclusion in any future amendments.  

Read our full submission to the Inquiry here.

Read the full Parliamentary Hearing transcript here.

Read the NSW Legislative Council's final report here.

See also:

Pay Per View Torture: Why Are Australian Telcos and ISPs Enabling a Child Sexual Abuse Pandemic?

Tech companies turn a blind eye to child sexual abuse material

Collective Shout’s submission to the Modern Slavery Bill 2018 (Provisions)

Australian Modern Slavery Act must tackle sexual exploitation

Slavery is real and we will fight it, says NSW parliament

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Melinda Tankard Reist on ABC Radio National discussing the #WakeUpInstagram campaign

Posted on Media by Melinda Liszewski · November 28, 2019 3:45 PM

A coalition of women’s rights groups in Australia, Canada and the United States has called on the photo-sharing giant Instagram to introduce tough new protections for young girls using the site.

The campaign with the hash-tag Wake Up Instagram says the platform is used to groom and harass adolescent and even pre-teen girls who post photographs.

The coalition has collected hundreds of sexually graphic comments posted by men. Its Australian spokeswoman is Melinda Tankard-Reist from the organisation Collective Shout.

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Objecting to the sexualisation of girls is not the same as objecting to sexuality: a response to false claims

Posted on News by Melinda Tankard Reist · July 07, 2019 6:57 PM · 2 reactions

The shame is not with young women’s sexuality but with a culture that teaches them that is their only value

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Interview with Melinda Tankard Reist

Posted on News by Coralie Alison · July 06, 2019 3:24 PM · 1 reaction

Tish Shelton from City Women Toowoomba interviews Melinda Tankard Reist about what Collective Shout is all about, our victories against Zoo Weekly, Wish shopping app and our current campaigns against porn themed portrayals of women in the public space. Collective Shout empowers others to speak out. 

Post by citywomentoowoomba.


"See what you made me do": author Jess Hill's mission to understand abusive men

Posted on News by Melinda Liszewski · June 23, 2019 4:04 PM

Via ABC News

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