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The Red Barnet's work against child pornography
The Red Barnet hotline was launched in 1998 and receives on average 500 reports every month. The hotline staff analyses and assesses all reports. Reports dealing with potentially illegal material are sent on to hotlines in other countries or to the Danish police. The hotline staff has knowledge about the use of the Internet by paedophiles, and work closely together with the National Center of Investigation in IT-crimes. The hotline also co-operates with national Internet Service Providers about illegal Material and Internet Safety. The fight against child pornography on the Internet is a part of Save the Children's work against sexual abuse of children. As all that Save the Children does, the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child underpins he work.



Reports 2001

Red Barnet's Hotline has received 5424 reports during the year 2001, corresponding to 452 reports on average per month.

Reports about web-addresses are most common

More then 90% of the incoming reports concern material posted on websites. The hotline has the same free access to this material as everybody else. Some websites are paysites and access requires membership. The hotline does not have easy access to paysites.


What do the other reports concern?

The last 10% of the reports concern material distributed via newsgroups, chatrooms, peer2peer programs or via email. In the second half of 2001 we have noticed an augmentation in the number of reports about child pornographic material distributed via peer2peer programs. We have also noticed an augmentation in the number of complaints about unwanted emails that propose people to visit websites that are said to contain child pornography.


Tracing the material

Analysing a reports, the hotline staff attempts to trace the illegal material in order to send on a report to the relevant country as fast as possible. Three of four times the tracerouting ends in the USA. This doesn't necessarily mean that the material is hosted there; many big web companies have the entrance to their different web servers in the USA. Information about illegal material is sent on to the country where the trace ends and from here the criminal investigation begins.

Three types of reports

Around 1/3 of the reports from 2001 refers to pictures or videos that show potential illegal child pornography.

Another third of the reports deals with "posing pictures", namely children in posing positions wearing little or no clothes. These pictures are legal. The pictures are not uploaded to the internet by accident but are clearly distributed in order to stimulate people with a sexual interest for children.

The last part of the reports concern both adult pornography, websites with links to potential child pornographic material and sites which have been closed down or to there is no access.

For more information and to report child pornography on the Internet,

please go to:

http://www.redbarnet.dk/DKPages/GBSite/index.html
Published by   Council of the Baltic Sea States, Lars Lööf (CBSS)
Created   04.07.2002
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