The IWF are the biggest Hotline in Europe. Globally, we provide a safe space for over 2.6 billion people to report suspected child sexual abuse images and videos online. 🌎 If you stumble across this content, don't ignore it, report it to us at iwf.org.uk/report/ and help us remove this content for good.

Every platform deserves the tools to tackle child sexual abuse material. Image Intercept helps eligible startups and smaller businesses detect and block known criminal child sexual abuse images and videos, helping protect users and support compliance with the UK's Online Safety Act. Learn more and register your interest today: eu1.hubs.ly/H0zm62l0

In 2025, we took action against more than 310,000 webpages showing child sexual abuse. 63% of them were traced to hosting services in EU countries. Online services play a central role in finding this material and reporting it. But in the EU, the legal basis that allows messaging and email services to do this voluntarily is temporary. Support strong EU action to replace this temporary arrangement with clear, lasting rules. Write to your MEP today: eu1.hubs.ly/H0zm3_v0.

Summer clothes have officially gone into storage, but some of them won’t be coming back out. @Collection4Clothes can help turn your unwanted clothes into income for the IWF. We place a collection bin at your workplace; your staff or customers fill it with clothes, accessories and shoes they no longer need, and the proceeds come to us - at no cost to your business! The income from these donations helps ensure child sexual abuse images found by our analysts are taken down and supports our work to prevent the prolonged suffering of victims. If your workplace has room, sign up and support our cause at eu1.hubs.ly/H0zbYzQ0.

Every day, our analysts work tirelessly to search for, stop, remove and prevent child sexual abuse imagery online. But offenders are resourceful in creating and distributing this criminal content, so we need your help to fulfil our mission of seeing an internet free from child sexual abuse. Learn more about our work and find out how you can support us: eu1.hubs.ly/H0zc4vv0.

🚨 Important resource for professionals working with children and young people. AI-generated child sexual abuse material is an emerging threat. In 2025, the Internet Watch Foundation saw a rapid increase in the number of AI-CSAM reports, both on the clear web and dark web forums. 📚 Together with @NCA_UK @CEOPEducation we’ve created a guide to support professionals in understanding and responding to AI-CSAM, with practical advice on how to act when it’s encountered. 👉 eu1.hubs.ly/H0zbTXv0.

“We’re operating in an online world that never stands still,” says our Hotline Director, Chris Hughes. “The tools offenders use are getting faster, smarter and more automated, and offender pathways are becoming more complex and diverse. Technological advances often present us with new challenges and potential solutions. Our job is to ensure the balance of power and control stays on the side of the vulnerable.” Learn more about the crucial work our analysts do at eu1.hubs.ly/H0zbTph0.

Amy was just three years old when we became aware of imagery showing her abuse. Even after she was rescued, that abuse continued to circulate online. In one three-month period, the IWF assessed and hashed an image of Amy on average three times each day. Her story is a stark reminder that every image depicts a real child, and every removal matters. Learn more about Amy’s story and support our work to stop, remove and prevent child sexual abuse material online: eu1.hubs.ly/H0z8tcm0.

“For me, it was always about the mission… about doing a job that made a difference” After 17 years helping to remove child sexual abuse imagery from the internet, a former IWF analyst shares what kept her going: the mission, her team and the support around her. 💙 We’re now recruiting for several roles across the organisation. Read more at iwf.org.uk/news-media/news/f…

There are many ways you can support our mission to see an internet free from child sexual abuse, but the most important thing you can do is to report criminal imagery to us at eu1.hubs.ly/H0z8vbx0. Together, we can make the internet safer.

By the end of June 2026, 462 Report Remove reports involving sextortion had been confirmed by our analysts as containing child sexual abuse imagery - 17% more than the total number of confirmed sextortion reports dealt with in the whole of 2025 (394). Our CEO Kerry Smith said: “Behind each one of those reports is a desperate child or young person. Behind each child and young person is a family. And these numbers are only the tip of the iceberg. We’ll never know the true scale – or how many do not get the help they need." Read more at eu1.hubs.ly/H0z8rS50.

In 2025, our analysts confirmed 311,610 webpages contained child sexual abuse material, of which 15,031 (5%) were identified as commercial in nature. Money is a significant motivator for producing child sexual abuse material online, so a crucial part of tackling its distribution is disrupting the commercial influences driving its production. This includes the introduction of mandatory duties on financial institutions to proactively detect, take down and report digital payment links directing to the sale of images and videos of child sexual abuse. Learn more in our latest Data & Insights report: eu1.hubs.ly/H0z8rzS0 .

Would you sign this petition? The EU can act against child sexual abuse online. We asked citizens in the EU district to share their views. Stand up for children online and demand strong EU action. Learn more: eu1.hubs.ly/H0z8ptP0

A safer internet depends on organisations across the domain industry working together. With support from Public Interest Registry, eligible domain registries and registrars can apply for free access to: 📣 Domain Alerts 📋 TLD Hopping List These services can help your organisation identify abuse sooner, respond with confidence and prevent harmful domains from reappearing. Be part of a stronger, more coordinated response: eu1.hubs.ly/H0z8tGn0.

Public debate around the detection of online child sexual abuse material is dominated by myths, misunderstandings, and hypotheticals. The truth is that detection technology is built on established safety and security tools that have been embedded across the digital ecosystem for decades. Read this blog from IWF Chief Technology Officer Dan Sexton to learn more: eu1.hubs.ly/H0y-rxB0.

In order to protect the most vulnerable, our analysts face unimaginable horrors. They are the unsung heroes in the fight against child sexual abuse imagery online. Their work makes a difference - whether that's preventing the prolonged suffering of victims or protecting internet users from exposure to criminal content. Learn more about their vital work: eu1.hubs.ly/H0z0sY90.

Reporting child sexual abuse imagery is simple, easy and anonymous. The victimisation of a child who has endured sexual abuse doesn’t stop once they have been safeguarded. If images and videos of their abuse have been captured and shared online, they face repeated suffering every time that imagery surfaces. But together, we can prevent this. If you stumble across imagery you suspect may contain child sexual abuse, report it to us at eu1.hubs.ly/H0z0r060.

As EU negotiations on the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation continue in Brussels, we place a choice before the public and policymakers – to either push for legislation that protects children online or make it easier for child sexual abuse content to spread. A weaker or further-delayed law will leave platforms without a clear legal duty to keep users safe. Learn more and take action today: eu1.hubs.ly/H0y-qxs0.

Urgent action is needed after our expert analysts found “more photorealistic AI-generated child sexual abuse images in the first half of this year than in the whole of 2025, including imagery depicting children under two years old.”

Generative technologies are enabling the creation of new, often photorealistic sexual abuse content depicting children. These AI tools amplify risk, increasing the speed at which depictions of abuse can be created and distributed, as well as the potential for revictimisation. Assessing videos requires a balance of precision and care. Our analysts and assessors carefully review each clip, whether brief or extended, and capture critical context while maintaining the wellbeing of the team. Learn more in our latest Data & Insights Report: eu1.hubs.ly/H0y-qfv0.