It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, a time for reaching out to the many people who find themselves prey to sadness, grief, depression, anxiety or vulnerability – feelings that cause so many of us to crash and burn under the pressure of modern life.
The Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) ‘Once Upon a Year’ features a true story about a child called Olivia whose rape and sexual torture is seen daily online. The charity also announces its ambition to stop the demand for child sexual abuse images
The IWF, as part of the UK Safer Internet Centre, believes that this is an opportunity to demonstrate and to build on Britain’s already world-leading approach in tackling the spread of child sexual abuse images and videos online.
Over three-quarters of men (and 36% of women) in the UK watch porn online,* and some of them may accidentally see upsetting content online.
he Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) welcomes today’s report from the House of Lords’ Communications Committee and the 10 principles it recommends to help shape the digital world of the future.
As the UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) embarks on its fifth phase of co-funding from the European Commission we look back at the achievements of the partnership over the last two and a half years in our public report.
Internet Watch Foundation’s (IWF) CEO, Susie Hargreaves OBE, puts forward a voice of reason by urging politicians and policy makers to take a balanced approach to internet regulation which avoids a “heavy cost to the victims of child sexual abuse”.
Blog by Will Few, Development Manager
