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Eliminating online child sexual abuse
Discover how IWF collaborates globally to eradicate online child sexual abuse, focusing on innovation, partnerships and safeguarding efforts.
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“The time for talking is over, Europe requires firm effective action now.”
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Religious leaders must take ‘moral lead’ to help end online child sexual abuse
Internet Watch Foundation calls for partnership ahead of landmark Vatican conference.
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IWF connects to the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID)
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Children coerced to insert household objects into themselves – including a toothbrush and a recorder – for online predators’ pleasure
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Vital EU regulation needed to prevent the coercion of children online into most severe form of sexual abuse, as highlighted by new IWF study
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Working internationally & fighting self-generated content
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Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week: How IWF analysts make a difference
“Imagine your darkest moments exposed to an unknown number of people. Then imagine strangers watching your pain for sexual satisfaction. That’s what happens for some of the children whose abuse images we see online."
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‘It’s a window into the child’s abuse. Thank goodness there is a stop button for us.’ A day in the life of an IWF analyst
Cambridgeshire mum Lillian* has one of the most unusual and, sometimes, harrowing jobs in the world.
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IWF urges young people to get help as criminals target younger children in ‘sextortion’ scams
Tamsin McNally, Hotline Manager at the IWF, appeared live on National BBC Breakfast news to warn about the increasing prevalence of “sextortion” online.
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20,000 reports of coerced ‘self-generated’ sexual abuse imagery seen in first half of 2022 show 7- to 10-year-olds
New data released by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shows almost 20,000 webpages of child sexual abuse imagery in the first half of 2022 included ‘self-generated’ content of 7- to 10-year-old children.
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Category A child sexual abuse material of a ‘self-generated’ nature – an IWF snapshot study
An IWF research study on Category A child sexual abuse images and videos which fit the ‘self-generated’ definition.