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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

Protecting Africa’s children online: a new policy framework

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.
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  • Publications
  • Education Technology
  • Global

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.
  • Resources for industry stakeholders
  • Services

Advertisers’ 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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Children’s Rights and the UN Global Digital Compact
  • Position papers
  • Child Rights
  • United Nations

Children’s Rights and the UN Global Digital Compact

Professor Sonia Livingstone and Dr Kim R. Sylwander, both part of the joint 5Rights-LSE Digital Futures for Children research centre, cover how we can ensure the Global Digital Compact effectively recognises the full range of children’s rights.
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  • Position papers
  • Child Rights
  • United Nations

August Statement on Global Digital Compact Informal Consultation

5Rights’ latest call for a Global Digital Compact that prioritises the promotion, protection and implementation of children’s rights in the digital environment on behalf of a group of organisations.
Court Ruling Undermines Big Tech’s War on Kids Online Protections
  • Position papers
  • Data Protection
  • US

Court Ruling Undermines Big Tech’s War on Kids Online Protections

This statement from the Kids Code Coalition highlights how the recent ruling on the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act is encouraging news for Kids Code bills across the country.
Baroness Kidron sits down with Professor Sonia Livingstone to discuss why AI accountability must not be left to tech experts.
  • Campaign Resources
  • AI
  • United Kingdom

Tech Tantrums – When Tech Meets Humanity

5Rights Chair and founder Baroness Beeban Kidron delivered a public lecture setting out why the issues around AI must not be left to tech experts and unaccountable corporations.
Tech This Out!: our youth-led podcast
  • Youth Engagement
  • Global

Tech This Out!: our youth-led podcast

Want to know what young people really think about tech? Tech This Out! is our first ever podcast entirely created by young people. Get ready to be challenged, inspired and informed as we explore the digital environment together.
Advertisers’ Child Rights Manifesto
  • Resources for industry stakeholders
  • Services

Advertisers’ 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.
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  • Position papers
  • Online Harms
  • United Kingdom

5Rights consultation response to Ofcom’s illegal harms code

5Rights raises concerns over Ofcom’s draft Children’s Safety Code of Practice as the current draft doesn’t fully deliver on its promise of a reset for children’s safety online.
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  • Reports
  • Data Protection
  • Education Technology
  • Global

Enforcement action improves privacy for children in EdTech

Enforcement actions in the Netherlands have spurred positive changes in Google’s data practices for education. Learn about the key improvements and ongoing challenges in this brief.
Four children focus intently on a laptop screen, with one child in the foreground wearing a light blue shirt, another in a blue shirt, and the third wearing a dark blue hat. The fourth child has their back to the viewer.
  • Publications
  • Education Technology
  • Global

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.