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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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Joint letter: Re-examine Data (Use and Access) AI clauses
  • Policy & Regulation
  • AI
  • United Kingdom

Joint letter: Re-examine Data (Use and Access) AI clauses

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.
"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 Committee Stage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill

In this briefing for the House of Lords’ Committee Stage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill, 5Rights highlights the 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.
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  • 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.
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

Lecture: 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.
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  • Position papers
  • Online Harms
  • United Kingdom

5Rights Consultation Response to Ofcom’s Children’s Safety 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.
In support of a Code of Practice for Education Technology
  • Reports
  • Data Protection
  • Education Technology
  • United Kingdom

In support of a Code of Practice for Education Technology

This briefing on the Amendment 146 to the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill unpacks the benefits of a Code of Practice for EdTech.
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  • Reports
  • Online Harms
  • United Kingdom

Enforcing the Online Safety Act for Children

In this document, the Children’s Coalition provides key recommendations for Ofcom to ensure the Online Safety Act effectively safeguards young users.