INHOPE news

07 APRIL, 2015

INHOPE Hotline Analysts in second EFC Training Session to Improve Competences in the Fight against Online Child Sexual Abuse

Hosted by the European Police College (CEPOL) in Budapest between the 7th-10th of April, this year's EFC training session aims at empowering law enforcement authorities, private companies and NGOs to counteract the production and dissemination of child sexual abuse material on the internet for financial again. The training takes place in the context of the European Financial Coalition against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Online (EFC), a project chaired by Europol's Europea...

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April 2015

02 Apr

Appointment of Veronica Donoso to the position of INHOPE Executive Director

INHOPE is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs Veronica Donoso to the position of INHOPE Executive Director, effective April 13th.

March 2015

24 Mar

INHOPE's awareness-raising video campaign ‘Report online child sexual abuse, don’t ignore it’ nominated for WSIS Project Prize 2015

Computers and the internet are arguably some of the world’s greatest inventions: the power at your fingertips to learn, play, connect, interact, create and share. Unfortunately, there is a flip side to everything. Cybercrime, illegal content, including the worst of the worst area: online child sexual abuse. Child victims need protection. Offenders need to be brought to justice. And you, the digital citizens, need to know you are not powerless. If you discover suspected child sexual abuse ima...

February 2015

07 Feb

Empowering and protecting children online: Insafe & INHOPE Annual Report 2014

The joint Insafe and INHOPE networks have recently published their annual report for 2014.

November 2014

17 Nov

INHOPE celebrates in Dubrovnik 15 years of good work and looks at the future of child online protection

Coinciding with the 15th anniversary of its founding, INHOPE - The International Association of Internet Hotlines held its second annual members' meeting in the World Heritage city of Dubrovnik from 11-13 November. Hosted by the Croatian Center for Missing and Exploited Children (CNZD), the three-day conference was attended by delegations from 34 countries.

October 2014

15 Oct

Stakeholders join forces at INTERPOL annual meeting on Crimes against Children

In cooperation with the 32nd Meeting of the INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes against Children, representatives from Industry, Law Enforcement, Civil Society and the Research community met earlier this month to initiate a new collaborative process in the fight against online Child Sexual Abuse.

01 Oct

INHOPE and its reporting hotlines: a force multiplier in combatting online child sexual abuse

INHOPE’s Advisory Board held its inaugural meeting on the 17th September 2014 at EUROPOL’s headquarters in The Hague, in The Netherlands. Discussions focused on strategy, technology, performance, emerging trends and special issues.

July 2014

03 Jul

INHOPE announces new Advisory Board

INHOPE – The International Association of Internet Hotlines has named initial members to its new Advisory Board which will serve the non-governmental organisation in its mission to respond to reports of illegal content online and help deliver on its commitment to stamp out child sexual abuse from the Internet.

April 2014

29 Apr

ECPAT International and the INHOPE Foundation cooperate in the fight against child sexual abuse material

The INHOPE Foundation and ECPAT International have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise collaboration with particular emphasis on collaborating to remove child sexual exploitation and abuse material (images and videos) from the Internet.

16 Apr

Online child sexual exploitation likely to rise in the coming years

Online child sexual exploitation is likely to rise in the coming years, with ever-increasing Internet adoption rates globally and higher levels of demand for new abuse material. To prevent and protect, the unique partnerships between Internet hotlines, industry and law enforcement are delivering more now than ever, as shown in the INHOPE statistics for 2013. Digital citizens need to know where to report illegal content and criminal conduct. This is precisely why the INHOPE network continues t...

November 2013

06 Nov

INHOPE on the BBC News Channel about the Terre des Hommes #Sweetie 10 initiative [Interview transcript/ press statement]

The initiative raises awareness on the issue of child sexual exploitation, online and offline. It shows the links existing between ‘child sex tourism’ and the production of child sexual abuse material. It confirms that live-streaming is a new and disturbing criminal money-making trend, a new lucrative platform for organised crime. However, at INHOPE, we believe in cooperation and knowledge sharing. And this is too serious of a crime, in fact one of the worst violations of human rights on the ...

September 2013

26 Sep

NTD in Europe: a success setting the standard in getting CSAM off the Web fast

The first half of 2013 has seen rapid and substantial improvement in the time taken to remove Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) from the Internet. In Europe, 96% reports confirmed to contain CSAM were reported by INHOPE hotlines to law enforcement within a day. 92% webpages were removed within 7 days or less. Success is raising the bar and setting the standard in getting CSAM off the web fast and faster.

June 2013

20 Jun

Where there's a will, there's a way

In the United Kingdom, the tragic cases of April Jones and Tia Sharp triggered a wake-up call and underscored the urgency of action needed from all levels of government, industry, law enforcement and other stakeholders to step up the fight against online child sexual abuse material. INHOPE hopes that the UK initiative will inspire government and industry worldwide to take a similar approach.

May 2013

22 May

INHOPE Annual Report 2012: 'Making a real difference'

Today, INHOPE - The International Association of Internet Hotlines released its Annual Report for the year 2012, thoroughly documenting its efforts in the global fight against online child sexual abuse. Entitled 'Making a real difference', the report comprises a significant set of statistical results extracted from INHOPE's unique database, the INHOPE Report Management System (IHRMS).

April 2013

09 Apr

INHOPE 2012 | Facts, Figures and Trends

2012 has seen impressive advances in the time taken to remove images and videos of children being sexually abused online. Whereas in the past, evidence of these horrific crimes may have remained online for many months, occasionally years, INHOPE can now report that in the majority of instances the content is taken down in days and sometimes just hours.

ABOUT INHOPE

INHOPE is an active, collaborative and influential network of 51 hotlines in 45 countries worldwide, committed to stamping out child sexual abuse from the Internet.

INHOPE was founded in 1999 under the European Commission Safer Internet Programme.

INHOPE Hotlines offer the public a way of anonymously reporting Internet material including child sexual abuse material they suspect to be illegal.

INHOPE members operate a public hotline to receive complaints about apparent illegal content, they then assess the content in accordance with their national laws and if they consider it to be illegal they trace the material to a hosting country. If the content is illegal in the hosting country then the national Hotline takes steps to have the material ‘taken down’ in consultation with their law enforcement partners.

In the first half of 2014:

170 analysts across the INHOPE network processed 587,674 reports of illegal content.

39,144 reports were assessed to contain unique URLs of child sexual abuse material, a 32% increase compared with the last six months of 2013.

81% child victims were female. 6% child victims were infants.

In Europe, 98% was reported to law enforcement within a day. 91% was removed from the Internet within three days.

Want to know more about the work of INHOPE?

Visit our website www.inhope.org and download our 2013/14 Annual Report