46 Hotlines
42 Countries
1 Mission
46 Hotlines
42 Countries
1 Mission
77% of CSAM assessed in 2020 depicted children under 13 years of age.
93% of victims depicted in reports assessed during 2020 were girls and 5% were boys.
Netherlands - 21%
Austria - 21%
United Kingdom - 12%
Canada - 10%
Colombia - 9%
Germany - 5%
Poland, United States, Ireland; each 3%
Czech Republic, Finland, each; 2%
The pie chart shows the variety of sites used to store CSAM.
Number of exchanged content URLs: 1038268
Number of illegal content URLs: 267192
Useful Documents
A review of 2020, 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 &
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Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is the evidence of a crime that has taken place. Investigators and victim identification specialists use this evidence to work out information about th (...)
On September 2nd, Hotline.ie, the Irish national centre combatting illegal content online (est. 1999), has launched a new online service and reporting portal aimed at helping young peopl (...)
Peer-to-peer networks, commonly referred to as P2P networks, are a network of computers in which resources can be shared without requiring a separate server computer. All computers in th (...)
In June 2021, the Australian Government’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement agreed to inquire into, and report on, law enforcement capabilities in relation to child expl (...)
Within the framework of its Digital Citizenship Programme, Telefono Azzurro will shortly present the results of new research carried out in cooperation with Doxa Kids on children’s rig (...)
The Film and Publication Board (FPB), content regulator in South Africa, notched up another successful conviction of a Child Sexual Abuse Material suspect. Working with law enforcement, (...)
Law Enforcement has more time to focus on victim identification and rescue when they use AviaTor. A tool that guarantees prioritisation of NCMEC reports and streamlines the process for o (...)
The ESCAPE project, funded by End Violence Against Children (EVAC) represents INHOPE's vision to put an eco-system in place ensuring that every industry stakeholder and each member of th (...)
Launched in 2015 by the WePROTECT Global Alliance, the Model National Response provides countries with a theoretical framework for coordinating a national response to online child sexual (...)
In our recently released Annual Report, we stated that websites have replaced image hosting sites as the site type on which INHOPE member hotlines most commonly find Child Sexual Abuse M (...)
