The European Financial Coalition

Adults with a sexual interest in children are increasingly using the internet and emerging technology to share and view child sexual abuse images. One of the ways in which these images are available is via commercial websites, where customers pay a subscription to access them. The images these websites make available show real children being sexually abused or sexually exploited, with individuals paying to either purchase or view these images.

Led by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre – the UK’s dedicated policing organisation for protecting children from sexual exploitation – and funded by the European Commission, the European Financial Coalition (EFC) brings together organisations from across all key sectors to track, disrupt and look to ultimately confiscate commercial gain made by those who deal in the distribution of some of the worst material imaginable.

For the first time across Europe, major financial, internet and technology corporations have joined forces with international policing agencies, the European Commission and specialist child protection NGO’s to bring to a halt the activities of those who seek to make money from the distribution of child sexual abuse images. More...

Conference 15 -16 September 2010

Not Just A Picture Conference Roundup

To mark the end of the pilot phase of the European Financial Coalition, the final conference, entitled ‘Not Just a Picture’ was held on 15-16 September 2010 at the Concert Noble in Brussels More...

The European Financial Coalition have published two documents looking at the commercial distribution of child abuse images:

“Victims in abuse images are getting increasingly younger”

CEOP 2009

“The severity of abuse in images seized has increased significantly”

CEOP 2009

“It is estimated that there are up to 3000 commercial child exploitation or abuse websites in existence”

IWF 2009