Resources
Explore our curated resources and find valuable publications, tools and positions on children’s rights in the digital environment.
Access restrictions to protect children and their rights in the digital environment
5Rights Foundation welcomes the will of the EU and its Member States to take further and robust action to protect children from unsafe and exploitative practices by technology providers and ensure children’s rights are fully respected and upheld in the digital age.
ISO/IEC 27566-1 (Age Assurance Systems – Part 1: Framework)
This document establishes a framework for age assurance systems and describes their core characteristics, including privacy and security, for enabling age-related eligibility decisions.
Joint Statement on Artificial Intelligence and the Rights of the Child
This joint statement sets out a shared commitment to advancing a child rights-based approach to artificial intelligence.
Protecting childhood online: Why the Online Safety Act matters
Within this briefing from the Children’s Coalition for Online Safety, we present the collective evidence gathered by our organisations, demonstrating both the scale and severity of the harms children face online, and how this first-of-its-kind legislation will help to mitigate them.
Your rights in the digital world
Your Rights in the Digital World is a child-friendly guide to General comment No. 25, the UN’s landmark explanation of how children’s rights apply online. It breaks down what governments and tech companies must do to make sure digital technologies are safe, fair and supportive for every child. The guide is available in English, French and Spanish.
Joint letter on safeguarding children’s rights in Digital Omnibus proposals
5Rights along with civil society networks representing more than 300 organisations, experts, and the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights have joined together to call on the EU to safeguard children’s rights in the Digital Omnibus.
Joint Input to Canada’s AI Strategy
Building on our Joint submission to the Canadian Children’s Privacy Code, 5Rights led a coordinated response of 20 leading civil society organisations and individual experts calling for a national approach to AI governance that embeds children’s safety, privacy, and rights from the outset.
A child rights audit of GenAI in EdTech: Learning from five UK case studies
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools are increasingly embedded in digital services and products that are used for and in education (EdTech), raising urgent questions about their impact on children’s learning and rights. We take a holistic child rights approach to children’s learning to evaluate five GenAI tools used in education – Character.AI, Grammarly, MagicSchool AI, Microsoft Copilot and Mind’s Eye.
Joint Letter to the President of the European Commission on Enforcing EU digital regulations for children
Ahead of the 2025 State of the Union, 22 organisations, experts, Members of the European Parliament and Members of the Intergroup on Children’s Rights have written to President von der Leyen calling for stronger enforcement of EU digital regulations to protect children online.