The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) works to end child sexual abuse imagery online. More than one million webpages (1,228,090) showing at least one, and often many tens, hundreds or thousands of child sexual abuse images and videos have been removed from the internet thanks to our work over the past five years alone.
Founded in 1996, we now give more than 2.7bn people from 53 countries a safe place to report online child sexual abuse images and videos to remove from the internet. Our dedicated child reporting services provide children and young people with the ability to report and remove sexual imagery of themselves in both the UK and India.
Based in the UK, we assess every report we receive. Our highly trained and well supported analysts in the Hotline have investigated – with ‘eyes on’ – millions of reports from the public, police, tech companies and through their own proactive searching.
This IWF Annual Data & Insights Report 2024 delves into and explores the intelligence gathered in 2024 through the assessment of child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet.
Forewords from our Chair and Interim CEO highlight our achievements while reflecting on the challenges ahead as we endeavour to make the internet safer. We look at how we work as an organisation and how we collaborate with others to achieve our mission.
Our high quality data and technical services prevent the upload, storage, distribution and trade of child sexual abuse imagery around the world, and we provide knowledge and support to law enforcement, tech companies, governments and regulators to create safe online environments.
By working together we can stop child sexual abuse online.
