Why We Need to Speak with One Voice on Children’s Online Safety
Parents across the world are calling for clearer, stronger action to keep children safe online.
21 November 2025
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“AI child sexual abuse imagery is not a future risk – it is a current and accelerating crisis”
IWF CEO Kerry Smith calls for complete EU ban of AI abuse content at high-level meeting of global experts in Rome.
20 November 2025
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AI imagery getting more ‘extreme’ as IWF welcomes new rules allowing thorough testing of AI tools
The IWF welcomes new measures to help make sure digital tools are safe as new data shows AI child sexual abuse is still spreading.
12 November 2025
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IWF welcomes Danish Presidency efforts to prevent legal gap in CSAM detection, but calls for greater ambition as negotiations move forward
While providing legal certainty is desirable, the IWF says voluntary detection alone is not enough to meet the scale of the child sexual abuse crisis online.
11 November 2025
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High public concern at spread of child sexual abuse images and videos in end-to-end encrypted spaces
More than nine in ten people in the UK say they are concerned at how images and videos of children being sexually abused are shared through end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging services.
10 November 2025
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Online child sexual abuse: The EU has a choice. Not between privacy and protection, but between indifference and compassion
The debate on the EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) has been dominated by one loud slogan. A slogan which may have dire consequences for the safety and wellbeing of millions of children worldwide.
10 November 2025
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Move for a Safer Internet: Three Years, Thousands of Minutes, and £60,000 Raised to Protect Children Online
Three years ago, when Pinsent Masons set out to unite their communities to raise money for the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), no one could have predicted how far their idea would go or how many people would still be moving for the cause three years later.
7 November 2025
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MEP visits IWF ahead of vital negotiations in EU Parliament on AI child sexual abuse content
Dutch MEP Jeroen Lenaers hears about AI harms from experts on the front line of the fight to stop child sexual abuse online.
30 October 2025
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IWF and child protection partners stand up for the rights of child sexual abuse victims and survivors at Brussels stunt
Coalition urges EU leaders to pass vital child sexual abuse laws
13 October 2025
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Europe in ‘last chance saloon’ as new paper shows child sexual abuse can be blocked before being shared in E2EE services
IWF paper sets out how end-to-end encrypted messaging can be protected from child sexual abuse without breaking encryption.
9 October 2025
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