Online sexual exploitation of children
What is online sexual exploitation?
Right now, sex offenders around the world - including the UK - are exploiting children without even leaving their homes.
Children are being sexually abused by traffickers, often family members, who share images or videos of the exploitation online.
Many traffickers livestream the abuse for sex offenders to direct, using the same social media platforms we use every day.
This crime is one of the fastest growing forms of human trafficking. In 2022, 1 in every 100 children in the Philippines was abused to create child sexual exploitation materials.
Shockingly, the UK is the third largest global consumer of livestreamed abuse.
Your support is urgently needed to stop this crime.
Will you help keep children safe from abuse now?
“I want to advocate and move our cause forward so that no other child is abused.”
How we're protecting children, together
Thanks to the support of people like you, IJM partners with police around the world to:
Find and bring children to safety
We work with local law enforcement to identify suspected traffickers and children who are being exploited, and help to facilitate operations to bring children to safety
Support children to overcome trauma
IJM social workers provide vital trauma-focused aftercare to help children recover from their experiences
Bring justice
IJM lawyers support authorities to hold traffickers to account.
Protect children
We partner with authorities to train police, judiciary and communities in how to stop exploitation. Our partnerships approach helps change systems so that abuse doesn’t happen in the first place.
End online sexual exploitation
We’re also working with governments and organisations worldwide to prevent this abuse from happening.
Our impact since 2011
1,203 children and vulnerable adults brought to safety
214 perpetrators convicted
