4 key priorities for considering the State's duties based on OG No. 25
Regularly review legislation on privacy and data protection for children and adolescents.
Incorporate safeguards, transparency, and independent oversight into digital services
Ensure that children know and use judicial and non-judicial mechanisms to remedy violations.
Provide free, confidential, and child-friendly reporting channels.
GO N°25 Committee on the Rights of the Child (2021)
It establishes that children's rights, as defined in the Convention, also apply to the digital environment, and that States must take measures to protect children from the risks and dangers they may encounter online, while ensuring that they have safe and beneficial access to the opportunities offered by technology.
Pact for the Future (A/RES/79/1) + Global Digital Pact (Anex I)
This Global Pact for the Future seeks to foster multi-stakeholder cooperation and capacity building, especially in developing countries, to regulate and audit AI and platforms.
The purpose of the Global Digital Pact is to establish an inclusive global framework, essential for the multi-stakeholder action needed to overcome the digital, data, and innovation gaps. The compact is expected to establish the principles, objectives, and measures for advancing an open, free, secure, and human-centered digital future for all, based on universal human rights and enabling the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
UN General Assembly, 22 September 2024 (Future Summit).
Online human rights: “same rights offline-online” as the basis for system design and governance; due diligence and accountability of public and private actors.
AI transparency and oversight: promote transparency, accountability, and robust human oversight of AI systems; develop regulatory capacities.
United Nations
Information and platform integrity: platform accountability and greater transparency in content moderation and recommendation algorithms; access to data for research to address disinformation and hate.
Data governance: privacy/data protection, interoperability, public digital assets and infrastructure to reduce opacity and facilitate auditing.
Cybersecurity with a focus on human rights and international cooperation.
United Nations
Children and adolescents: The Pact places child protection within the framework of human rights and safe digital environments, connecting it with transparency, risk mitigation, and multi-stakeholder cooperation.
Framework for cooperation among various stakeholders: governments, the private sector, civil society, and technical communities.
It is the first comprehensive global framework for digital cooperation that seeks to establish principles and commitments in areas such as connectivity, online security, and the governance of artificial intelligence, based on human rights and international law.