More and more children live, learn, and play online.
The digital world is central to how children learn, express themselves, and connect with others.
CHILDREN’S
RIGHTS in the
digital ENVIRONMENT
Building on opportunities online, while addressing risks
We work to ensure that all children can safely enjoy the benefits of digital access while being protected from emerging risks – online sexual exploitation, misinformation, cyberbullying, among others.
Children’s voices must be at the center.
CRC Asia ensures that children’s perspectives shape regional and global discussions on issues concerning their rights in the digital world.
Contribution to the shaping and promotion of UNCRC General Comment No. 25
We participated in children’s consultations on UNCRC General Comment No. 25, ensuring that Asian perspectives and realities shaped the global understanding of children’s rights in the digital environment.
Regional Children’s Consultations on Digital Rights
In August 2024, 36 children from across Asia gathered to discuss generative AI, digital rights, and civil and political rights in the digital environment. They developed concrete recommendations for governments, schools, and tech companies on safe, ethical, and inclusive AI design.
Influencing regional and global advocacy platforms
The recommendations from children were presented not only with Meta and Tiktok but at key international and regional forums and high-level policy discussions such as the ASEAN ICT Forum on Online Child Protection, UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights, Internet Governance Forum.
Co-created advocacy actions and campaign materials with children
#SafeWeb4Kids is a pioneering regional online safety campaign co-developed with children, producing child-friendly resources on digital literacy and online safety. We also have ongoing online safety campaigns in partnership with other the Asia Joining Forces Alliance and the Step up the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation of Children Down to Zero Alliance
- Ensure meaningful participation of children and space for civil society in decision-making by governments and private sector
- Build on opportunities in the digital environment to realize child rights, while addressing online risks.
- Link online and offline experiences when designing and evaluating interventions.
- Recognize diversity—interventions must reflect children’s varied contexts, genders, access levels, and capacities.
- Bridge the digital divide in access, skills, and adult support.
- Promote child-friendly, quality information online in languages children understand.
- Protect children’s privacy and civil rights online.
- Develop digital citizenship among children, parents, and teachers.
- Respect children’s evolving capacities in all digital policies and programs.
- Address the link between environmental harm and children’s mental health.
CRC Asia invites partners to join in advancing children’s rights in the digital environment—through collaborative research, joint advocacy, campaigns, and capacity-building across the Asia-Pacific region.
We are looking to work with governments, UN agencies, tech companies, and child rights networks that share our goal of a digital future that is safe, inclusive, and empowering for all children in Asia.
Together, we can make sure that the digital transformation of our societies remains for and with children in Asia.