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

  • Resources for industry stakeholders
  • Services
  • Global

Advancing Trust & Safety: systems and standards for online safety professionals 

“Advancing Trust & Safety” explores the evolution of T&S into a global profession, highlighting systemic barriers and proposing solutions to empower professionals and improve digital safety.
A caregiver and a child look intently at a tablet they are holding together.
  • 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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Preliminary Findings on ‘Walkie Talkie – All Talk’ Safety Concerns for Minors
  • Research
  • Online Harms
  • Global

Preliminary Findings on ‘Walkie Talkie – All Talk’ Safety Concerns for Minors

5Rights preliminary findings show major safety concerns with the Walkie Talkie – All Talk app that could be putting children in danger.
Advancing Trust & Safety: systems and standards for online safety professionals 
  • Resources for industry stakeholders
  • Services
  • Global

Advancing Trust & Safety: systems and standards for online safety professionals 

“Advancing Trust & Safety” explores the evolution of T&S into a global profession, highlighting systemic barriers and proposing solutions to empower professionals and improve digital safety.
A boy and a girl are both sitting on a white box, back-to-back, both looking at their respective smartphones. The girl, a young Asian girl, is wearing a white overshirt and sits upright. The boy, seemingly a few years old, has tight curls and is sitting slouched with his phone, in both hands, rested on his thighs. The light from their phones is bouncing off their faces. The white backdrop appears lit by a purple light.
  • Reports
  • Sexual Exploitation
  • Global

Guiding principles for addressing technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse

The latest report from the Digital Futures for Children centre provides six principles to complement our understanding and interventions on tackling technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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 girl is sitting at a desk, holding a smartphone. The desk is in the foreground. There are two notepads on the desk to the left of the image. A boy is standing to the girl's left. Both faces of the children are cropped out, but you can see the girl visibly smiling.
  • Reports
  • Education Technology
  • Services
  • Global

Smartphone policies in schools: what does the evidence say?

Smartphones and their addictive design techniques have sparked concern that they inhibit children’s schooling, but with EdTech offering new learning opportunities, what does the evidence tell us?
Expert briefing: Children’s Rights and the UN Global Digital Compact
  • Position papers
  • Child Rights
  • United Nations

Expert briefing: 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.
The Palais des Nations UN Headquarters in Geneva has a golden glow suggesting the photo was taken in early morning or late evening. The building fills the majoirty of the frame, with a strip of grey sky at the top of the frame. There is a dark low-level closed gate in the forground, and a row of flags leading to the building. All flags are drooped down, and caught in the shadow of trees.
  • 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.
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.