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International organizations



International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC)

Founded in 1998, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children promotes the safety and well-being of children through activism, policy development and multinational coordination.


ECPAT International

ECPAT is a network of organisations and individuals working together to eliminate the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The ECPAT acronym stands for End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes.


CIRCAMP — Thematic network for international law enforcement cooperation

Thematic network is established within the European Law Enforcement community in order to facilitate the exchange of information and best practice between countries in Europe, and thereby increase the effectiveness of international police cooperation


INTERPOL — Crimes against children

Section of INTERPOL website dedicated to crimes against children, including child abuse in the Internet. This section offers a database of missing children, texts of international conventions and national legislation of the INTERPOL member-states.


European Financial Coalition

European Financial Coalition (EFC) brings together organisations from across all key sectors to track, disrupt and look to help ultimately confiscate commercial gain made by those who deal in the distribution of some of the worst material imaginable


Safer Internet Programme

The programme aims to promote safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, particularly for children, and to fight against illegal content and content unwanted by the end-user, as part of a coherent approach by the European Union.


The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT)

The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) is made up of law enforcement agencies from around the world working together to build an effective, international partnership of law enforcement agencies that helps to protect children from online child abuse


European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online

The European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online is a network consisting of 17 children’s rights NGOs from across the EU working for a safer online environment for children.


National organizations



Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) — UK

CEOP is part of UK law enforcement dedicated to tackling and eradicating the sexual abuse of children


Project Safe Childhood — USA

Created by the US Deparment of Justice, Project Safe Childhood (PSC) aims to combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children.


i-SAFE — USA

Endorsed by the U.S. Congress, i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere.


Helplines and help centres



INHOPE — International Association of Internet Hotlines

The mission of the INHOPE Association is to support and enhance the performance of internet hotlines around the world, ensuring swift action is taken in responding to reports of illegal content to make the internet a safer place.


Insafe — European network of Awareness Centres promoting safe use of the Internet to young people

The mission of the Insafe cooperation network is to empower citizens to use the internet, as well as other online technologies, positively, safely and effectively.


Thinkuknow — UK

Thinkuknow is an education initiative by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre - the UK's national law enforcement agency that focuses on tackling the sexual abuse of children.


Stopline — Austria

Stopline is an internet report hotline which can be contacted by an internet users very simple, quick and unbureaucratic – also anonymously – if he finds the following content on the Internet: child pornography or national socialistic offences.


Stopchildporno.be — Belgium

The Belgian civil hotline for reporting child abuse images found on the Internet


Bulgarian hotline for Illegal and Harmful Content in Internet — Bulgaria

This helpline website enables local Internet users to report incidences of harmful and illegal content disseminated over the Internet, with a special focus on child pornography.


Cybertip.ca — Canada

Canada's national tipline for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children. The tipline is owned and operated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a charitable organization dedicated to the personal safety of all children.


SafenetCY — Cyprus

Hotline addresses issues of child pornography, child erotica, child nudism, child grooming activities, child trafficking, child sex tourism, but also racism, gender discrimination and inappropriate use of peoples’ images.


Our Child Foundation (Nadace Naše dítě) — Czech Republic

The hotline is meant for reporting and restraining the illegal contents of internet pages, especially the children pornography and it became a member of a large international network of similar lines all over the world


Horka Linka — Czech Republic

Hotline allowsanonymous reporting of harmful and illegal content, such as child sexual abuse and exploitation, child pornography, child trafficing, age non-suitable content, racism, extremism, hate speech, violence, drugs, etc.


Save the Children — Denmark

Hotline allowing to report about potentially illegal child abusive content in the Internet. Save the Children analyses the submitted content and forwards the potentially illegal material to the Danish Police or to hotlines in other countries.


Tietoturvakoulu (Online Safety School) — Finland

This websute provides support for information security learning throughout all grades in primary school as well as for teachers and parents.


PointdeContact — France

The website allowing to report potentially harmful and illegal content in the Internet, including child abuse images and videos.


Jugendschutz.net — Germany

Hotline website allowing to report illegal and harmful to minors Internet content


Internet Complaint Office — Germany

This website allows to file a complaint for illegal content and provides guides for parents and children, as well as links and information on youth protection and Internet/media literacy.


Freiwilligen Selbstkontrolle Multimedia — Germany

A hotline operated by Voluntary Self-Monitoring of Multimedia Providers (FSM) that allows reporting of illegal and harmful Internet content.


SafeLine — Greece

A hotline that offers a direct and responsible point of contact for users demanding the criminal prosecution and the removal of illegal Internet content.


MATISZ Internet Hotline — Hungary

Hotline website allows anonymous reporting of illegal or harmful content, including related to sexual abuse of children.


Barnaheill, Save the Children — Iceland

This helpline is operated by Save the Chidlren Iceland in collaboration with police and allows reporting of child abuse images on the Internet.


Heyrumst.is — Iceland

A website run by the Save the Children Iceland, providing a discussion forum and counselling on various subject, including sexual abuse, for children up to 18 years of age


Irish Internet Hotline — Ireland

Hotline provides an anonymous reporting service to members of the public who accidentally uncover illegal content on the Internet, particularly child pornography or activities relating to the sexual exploitation of children


Hot114 — Italy

This helpline provides information on child abuse, tips for parents and advice for teachers and children. It also offers an anonymous reporting service for illegal content on the web.


Stop-iT — Italy

A web service for reporting child abusive content on the Internet


Net-Safe Latvia — Latvia

A helpline that provides information to children, adolescents, teachers and parents about potential threats on the Internent and allows reporting of on suspicious illegal content.


Draugiškas internetas (Safer Internet) — Lithuania

A hotline that allows to report information of paedophilic or pornographic character or information inciting racial and ethnic hatred on the web


LISA Stop Line — Luxembourg

A helpline that allows reporting illegal content on the Internet, such child sexual abuse, racism and terrorism.


Hotline combating Child Pornography on the Internet — Netherlands

A hotline that allows reporting about the content containing sexual abuse of children found on the Internet


NIFC Hotline (National Initiative for Children Hotline) Polska — Poland

Polish hotline that allows reporting illegal content, including child sexual abuse, found on the Internet


Linha Alerta — Portugal

Portuguese awareness node and hotline service, that allows reporting online illegal content, primarily child sex abuse images.


Safer Internet Centre — Russia

Russian helpline that offers detailed and accessible information about different types of Internet-threats and allows reporting illegal content.


Friendly RUNET Foundation — Russia

Russian Child Pornography Hotline that allows reporting potentially illegal content, containing pornographic materials with children involved, found on the Internet


Spletno Oko — Slovenia

Slovenian hotline which provides means for anonymous reporting of illegal Internet contents. Spletno oko is dealing with the reports concerning child abuse images and hate speech on the Internet.


Protegeles — Spain

Spanish hotline that allows reporting illegal content on the Internet and forwards them to the law enforcement agencies.


Internet Watch Foundation — United Kingdom

The UK Hotline for reporting illegal online content specifically child sexual abuse content hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK


CyberTipline — United States of America

The Congressionally-mandated CyberTipline is a means for reporting crimes against children including all kinds of child sexual abuse.


Internet Hotline Center — Japan

Japanese hotline that accepts reports of illegal and harmful content against public safety and social order on the Internet from Internet users


Korean Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) — Korea

KCSC's Illegal & Harmful Information Report Center is a channel for Internet users to report on any information to be harmful to youths.


EU Kids Online

This project will design and conduct a comparable quantitative survey of children’s use of online technologies across member states focusing on online risks and safety. First findings will be available in autumn 2010.


NetSmartz Workshop — USA

Supported in part by the United States Congress and United States Department of Justice, the NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource seeking to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.

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