The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and its partners blocked at least 8.8 million attempts by UK internet users to access videos and images of children suffering sexual abuse during lockdown
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The IWF has partnered with Facebook, Peace One Day, and the Government of Mali to keep children in Mali safe online.
In 2019, almost nine in 10 (89%) known URLs containing child sexual abuse material were hosted in Europe
‘Wherever criminals seek to make children victims, and wherever children risk being harmed by the proliferation of this evil material, people must come together to fight it. That is exactly what has happened here in Haiti’
The series of videos was created in collaboration with five governments, six companies and numerous NGOs within a two-week period.
There are calls to make Europe a no-go zone for online sexual predators as new figures reveal that 9 in 10 webpages identified by the IWF showing videos and images of children suffering sexual abuse, rape, and torture are hosted on servers in Europe.
The expanded keywords list from the IWF will help prevent criminals from accessing images and videos of children being sexually abused.
The IWF says criminals sharing videos and images of children being abused make it ‘impossible’ for victims to move on from their abuse.
Police fear more and more 18-26 year old men in the UK are viewing child sexual abuse online, fueling the demand for online child sexual abuse in the UK.
