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Explore our curated resources and find valuable publications, tools and positions on children’s rights in the digital environment.

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  • Official documents
  • Online Harms
  • Africa

African Union Child Online Safety and Empowerment Policy

This new African Union’s policy safeguards young Africans online. It outlines strategies to create a safer digital world, prioritising children’s rights and a collaborative approach.
  • Resources for industry stakeholders
  • Services

Conscious Advertising Network: Child Rights Manifesto

The Children’s Rights and Wellbeing Manifesto developed by 5Rights and the Conscious Advertising Network details how brands can make child safety a brand priority, rather than a function within a business department.
  • Technical standards
  • Age-Assurance
  • Global

IEEE 2089.1-2024 – IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification

Framework for the design, specification, evaluation, and deployment of online age verification systems are established in this standard. This standard is the second in a family of standards focused on the 5Rights principles.
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  • Publications
  • Education Technology
  • Global

Research Report: International regulatory decisions on EdTech data practices

New research exposes the risks of EdTech data practices, highlighting surveillance, profiling, and inadequate data protection for children.
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"A tablet displaying a document titled 'The Data (Use and Access) Bill and children's data' by the 5Rights Foundation. The text on the screen describes the implications of data use for children's safety and privacy, focusing on the UK legislative landscape. The tablet rests on a wooden desk beside a blank notepad and a white pen. The document header includes 'House of Lords – Second Reading' and is dated November 2024."
  • Position papers
  • Data Protection
  • United Kingdom

Briefing on the second reading of the Data (Use and Access) Bill

In this briefing for the House of Lords’ second reading of the Data (Use and Access) Bill, 5Rights highlights risks of weakened child data protections and calls for stronger safeguards against AI discrimination.
A close-up shot of a laptop screen displaying a document titled 'The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) Workplan 2025-26: 5Rights response.' The document header features the 5Rights Foundation logo, and below, the text begins with '5Rights Foundation Call for input response' dated November 2024. Hands are visible on the laptop’s keyboard, suggesting someone is reviewing or typing on the document.
  • Position papers
  • Child Rights
  • United Kingdom

Response to the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum Workplan 2025-26

In its response to the DRCF Workplan (2025-26) call for input, 5Rights identifies five critical improvements needed to enhance protections for children in the digital regulatory landscape.
Global Online Safety Regulators Network: Regulatory Index
  • Official documents
  • Data Protection
  • United Kingdom

Global Online Safety Regulators Network: Regulatory Index

The Regulatory Index is a helpful guide to facilitate the collaboration of global online safety regulators. This foundational document presents the commonality and diversion of inter-jurisdictional regulators.
A woman is holding a tablet. She is holding the tablet in her left hand and is about to tap the screen with her right hand. On the screen is a document. She is sitting on a sofa. It is an over-the-shoulder image, and therefore, her face is only visible from the side in the top right of the image.
  • Official documents
  • Data Protection
  • United Kingdom

5Rights responds to ICO’s Children’s Code Strategy 2024-25 

Last August, the Information Commissioner’s Office called for evidence on its Children’s Code Strategy, which 5Rights has responded to, calling for more robust enforcement in line with the Code’s foundational aims.
A person holding a document titled "Online Safety Code," which features a circular, colourful design on the cover with bars in shades of red, orange, yellow, and pink radiating outward. In the top right corner of the document is the logo and text "Coimisiún na Meán”, Ireland's media regulator. The publication date, written at the bottom, is "October 2024."
  • Official documents
  • Data Protection
  • Europe

Irish Online Safety Code

The Irish Coimisiún na Meán published today the Irish Online Safety Code and accompanying guidance. This key document is part of the Irish Online Safety Framework to make online platforms safer, moving to a safety-by-design approach.
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  • Position papers
  • Online Harms
  • Europe

World Mental Health Day Joint Statement

5Rights has joined 32 organisations in signing Mental Health Europe’s joint statement calling for European institutions to honour their promises to better support the mental health of all in Europe, particularly children.
Global Digital Compact
  • Official documents
  • Child Rights
  • United Nations

Global Digital Compact

The Global Digital Compact was adopted at the UN Summit of the Future, aimed at securing a better digital future for all, grounded in human rights. 5Rights welcomes the positive incorporation of our recommendations.
Report on Governing AI for Humanity
  • Official documents
  • AI
  • Child Rights
  • United Nations

Report on Governing AI for Humanity

The High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has published it’s final report, ‘Governing AI for Humanity’ to identify how to manage the benefits and challenges of AI, which includes important reference to children.
A smartphone screen displaying a webpage from the European Commission about guidelines on the protection of minors under the Digital Services Act. The page includes a section titled 'About this initiative'.
  • Position papers
  • Child Rights
  • European Union

Statement on European Commission’s guidelines on DSA Article 28(1)

5Rights and 37 children’s rights organisations call on the European Commission to ensure DSA Article 28(1) sets clear guidelines for protecting children’s privacy, safety, and security across digital platforms.