46 Hotlines
42 Countries
1 Mission
46 Hotlines
42 Countries
1 Mission
91% of victims depicted in reports assessed during 2019 were girls and 7% were boys.
92% of CSAM assessed in 2019 depicted children under 13 years of age.
320,672 images and videos were assessed as illegal, roughly 100,000 more than 2018.
The pie chart shows the variety of sites used to store CSAM.
Netherlands - 79%
France - 10%
Slovakia - 4%
Latvia - 2%
Germany, Romania & Bulgaria - 1%
Useful Documents
A review of 2019, where we look at the INHOPE Network of Hotlines, the environment that it operates in and its global impact on CSAM.
For older reports - click here.
The Terminology Guidelines, dubbed the ‘Luxembourg Guidelines’ after their adoption in Luxembourg earlier this year, offer guidance on how to navigate the complex lexicon of terms commonly used relating to sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children. They aim to build consensus on key concepts in order to strengthen data collection and cooperation across agencies, sectors and countries.
The Technology Working Group was charged with examining the role of technology in combatting the proliferation of online child sexual exploitation and abuse imagery.A focus of this report is on the need to dismantle the chief technical, legal and policy silos that are frustrating real collaboration among law enforcement, industry, government and the non-government sector.
Insights &
articles
Technology has always played an important role in protecting children from harmful content online.
In Cambodia, a challenge faced by the child protection community has been the lack of resources and skills that law enforcement agencies have had.
The COVID-19 pandemic has lent greater urgency to tackling online threats.
Convictions of alleged paedophiles in South Africa are the result of lengthy and stringent processes, by a number of law enforcement agencies and experts, working in tandem to build a so (...)
Law enforcement is reacting to the industry, as companies in the United States like Facebook and Google are required by law to proactively scan their systems...
ChildWebAlert, Malta’s national online platform for the reporting of child sexual abuse material, has recently undergone a revamp.
The Voluntary Self-Regulation for Multimedia Service Providers (FSM) was recognised by the Federal Office of Justice as the first institution of regulated self-regulation under the Netwo (...)
In order to shed light on the operations of SafeLine, and its seventeen years of successful operation as a member of INHOPE, the Greek Safer Internet Center has published a research pape (...)
On Wednesday 22nd August INHOPE held its Annual General Meeting - this year, online.
The INHOPE network has seen a year of huge growth in both size and strength.
