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  1. Dismay as European Parliament votes to limit scope of child sexual abuse regulation

    The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and more than 65 child rights organisations are urgently calling on EU leaders to get vital child sexual abuse legislation ‘back on track’ to making the internet a safer place for children, following a vote by the European Parliament votes that dramatically limits the scope of the regulation.

  2. Non-Photographic Imagery URL List

    A list of known-webpages showing computer-generated imagery (CGI), drawn or animated pictures of children suffering abuse for blocking.

  3. How your support makes a difference

    It's only thanks to our supporters, donors and fundraisers that we're able to continue and expand our work to seek out and remove online child sexual abuse.

  4. Iconic photo agency joins IWF to ensure the safety of images in their archive

    The IWF is assessing a selection of ‘sensitive’ images from the Magnum photo archive to ensure they do not depict child sexual abuse.

  5. Calls for focus on prevention as Europe still hosting 'horrible numbers' of child sexual abuse sites

    On April 27, the IWF was in Brussels to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the IWF and to discuss forthcoming EU legislation to tackle Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation.

  6. IWF data fuels report aimed at ‘turning tide of online child sexual abuse’

    A new report by an independent think tank looks at what can be done by police and government to help “turn the tide of online child sexual abuse”.

  7. Two new international reporting portals in Zimbabwe and Ukraine will help find and remove child sexual abuse on the internet

    The portals, including the IWF's first in Europe, will allow people to report child sexual abuse material to the IWF should they stumble across it online

  8. ‘Vital’ new reporting portal boosts global fight against online child sexual abuse material

    The UK’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) worked with the Comorian government to provide a place people can report online child sexual abuse material.

  9. 'Deeply disturbing': Children being tricked into sharing explicit images as 'sextortion' cases soar

    Sextortion is a form of blackmail in which a child is tricked into sending sexual images of themselves to abusers, who then threaten to share the pictures with friends, family or more widely on the internet if they are not paid money.

  10. IWF partners with SS8 to help block access to child sexual abuse imagery

    SS8 will be allowed to use the IWF’s Hash List in software that is used by law enforcement agencies around the world.

  11. Pixels from a Crime Scene: Woman who was sexually abused as a child ‘sickened’ that images of her abuse may still being shared by predators

  12. Public warned as ‘disturbing’ new trend risks exposure to child sexual abuse material online

    The public faces an “escalating risk” of accidental exposure to child sexual abuse online as a “disturbing” new trend rewards criminals for spamming social media with links to illegal material.