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🇨🇦 Canada is at a crossroads. As the country overhauls its AI strategy and develops a children’s privacy code, it has an opportunity to become a global leader in protecting children’s rights in the digital age. A 5Rights-led submission to Canada’s new AI strategy - endorsed by over 20 organizations – called for strong, rights-based safeguards for AI deployment - especially as recent investigations show self-regulation fail to protect children. With international best practices, public support, and frameworks in development, Canada can ensure AI serves children, not exploits them. ➡️ Read more about the opportunities and challenges Canada faces: https://lnkd.in/eJHQ4Jv3 #ChildRights #AI #Canada Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development GoodBot Helix Foundation Inspiring Healthy Futures Kids Play Foundation Landon Pearson Centre MediaSmarts | HabiloMédias Sedentary Behaviour Research Network

👏 We’re thrilled to see so many creatives turn their talent toward one of the most urgent issues of our time, children’s safety online.   Congratulations to all shortlisted teams - your ideas show what’s possible when creativity puts children first. #Campaign4Good #SafetyByDesign #ChildOnlineSafety

🇳🇬 With half of Nigeria’s population under the age of 18 and 90% reporting having encountered online risks, prioritising online safety nationwide is crucial. 🌍 At the Techsocietal Online Safety Forum in Lagos, 5Rights Trustee Dorothy Gordon joined Nigerian and African leaders to call for a digital world that respects children’s rights, safety, and privacy, by design and default. Established frameworks such as the African Union Child Online Safety & Empowerment Policy and UNCRC General comment No. 25 outline what good looks like; now governments and regulators must ensure tech companies deliver it. More on the forum here: https://lnkd.in/eGkCifzh #ChildRights #OSF25

🚀 Launch event: Children in Digital Policies #Digital infrastructure, #technologies and access impact so much of our modern world. #DigitalPolicies frame how countries go about making progress and change. ❓ All we ask: are children included? The #DigitalFutures4Children centre have asked this question to hundreds of policies, in 30 countries and across regional and international bodies. You’re invited to see the results. Join us on the 16th December where we are launching three reports on how children are represented in digital policies. 🕡 Tuesday 16th December | 4 - 5:30pm (UTC) 📍 In person (LSE) and online. 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/evx4VQua #DFC #ChildRights #DigitalPolicies LSE Department of Media and Communications Sonia Livingstone 5Rights

📈 When generative AI first became publicly available in 2023, 46% of children used it - nearly double adult uptake. One year later, that had risen to 50%. Earlier this year on 5Rights youth-led podcast #TechThisOut, we explored the growing impact of AI on children’s daily lives. 5Rights Youth Ambassador Aisling joined Dr. Jun Z. from Oxford’s Child-Centred AI Design Lab to explore both the promises and potential risks of AI - from supporting learning to surveillance concerns. The episode covers: ⚠️ The risks of over-reliance on AI 🪡 How AI is integrated into children’s daily experiences 🔥 How thoughtful use can spark creativity and innovation ➡️ Listen to the full episode and learn more about the evolving landscape of AI and child safety: https://lnkd.in/d6dU_2az #AI #ChildSafety #TechThisOut!

📊 Children make up a third of all internet users - yet their rights are still routinely overlooked in the digital world. 5Rights is proud to support “Our Digital World, Our Say” a global initiative from the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) bringing children’s voices directly into conversations about their rights online. The views shared by young people like Adil, a 5Rights Youth Ambassador, make clear what must change. This article from the OHCHR highlights issues children face online, from manipulative design to opaque data practices, and the urgent need for systems that are safe by design. More information on the initiative: https://lnkd.in/dn9aXmYU #WorldChildrensDay #ChildRights Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC) Child Rights Connect

On World Children’s Day 2025, we’re celebrating childhood – and recognising how urgently it needs defending. 💬 As Leanda Barrington-Leach, 5Rights Executive Director, shares in her message, childhood today is lived as much online as offline. Yet the digital world children grow up in was not built with their rights or needs in mind. Too often, tech platforms and products exploit their attention, their data and their development - rather than supporting them to thrive. ⭐️ But there is hope. Around the world, momentum is building for responsible innovation that respects children’s rights. Over the past year, from the EU to Brazil to Indonesia, leaders have taken important steps to hold digital services accountable. The work is far from done. But children believe we can stand with them, stand up for them, and help give them back a childhood that is safe and worthy of their potential. #WorldChildrensDay #ChildRights

Children’s rights apply everywhere - including online. 🇺🇳 In 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child set this out clearly in General comment No. 25, a landmark guide to how children’s rights must be protected in the digital world. 🆕  For World Children’s Day, we’re launching ‘Your Rights in the Digital World’ - a child-friendly guide to General comment No. 25. It breaks down what governments and tech companies must do to make digital technologies safer and better for every child. Co-created by 5Rights, the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC), and the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR). ➡️ The guide is currently available in English, French and Spanish, with more languages planned for the future: https://lnkd.in/ez9SbMPz #WorldChildrensDay #GeneralComment25 #ChildRights

🤖 AI is reshaping the world around us: how we learn, create, connect, and even understand what’s real. But children and young people are often left out of the conversations about its impact, even though they can feel the effects most. For World Children’s Day 2025, children and young people are speaking for themselves. The new report ‘AI and Us’ shares their hopes, fears, and potential solutions they believe are needed to build a safer and more human future. 🔗 For the full report ‘AI and Us’ check the campaign website through this link: https://lnkd.in/ePE-7d_M  👏 Kudos to the many children and young people who have initiated and led this campaign and to our fellow partners for your collaboration and partnership. #ChildRights #AI #ChildParticipation #WorldChildrensDay Child and Youth Friendly Governance Project The Concerned for Working Children Aldeas Infantiles SOS de España Child Rights Connect H2OO: Heirs To Our Ocean

🌏 Around 90% of children in Southeast Asia use AI to learn, create or stay informed, and yet it’s not designed with their rights in mind. 🇲🇾 Over the past few days, 5Rights Head of International Affairs, Marie-Ève N., highlighted the urgent need for a digital environment that is safe by design, grounded in children’s rights, and capable of addressing the risks children face online. Joining government officials, civil society and youth representatives from across Southeast Asia, Marie-Ève was part of two panel discussions at the ASEAN ICT Forum on Child Online Protection in Kuala Lumpur – one on children’s mental health in an always-on world, and another on the intersections of children’s rights, regulation and AI. ⭐️ Thank you to Malaysian Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, the Malaysia Ministry of Communications, UNICEF, and The ASEAN Secretariat for convening this important dialogue. #ChildRights #ASEANMalaysia2025 #AI