CHILDREN’S
RIGHTS in the
digital ENVIRONMENT

More and more children live, learn, and play online.

The digital world is central to how children learn, express themselves, and connect with others.

Building on opportunities online, while addressing risks

We build on the opportunities the digital world offers while actively addressing the risks children face online.

Children’s voices and experiences matter – online and offline.

CRC Asia creates opportunities for children from all over Asia to share their ideas and experiences, making sure their voices help guide discussions and policies in our ever-connected 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 children’s perspectives and realities shaped the global understanding of children’s rights in the digital environment.

Empowering children’s voices through regional children’s consultations on digital rights

We led a series of child-led consultations across Asia #SafeWeb4Kids, #GenAI, #GenZFeelsForReels, and #GamerPOV2025 for children to develop recommendations that influence how the digital environment is governed and designed. These are part of our broader effort to ensure that children’s experiences drive regional and global advocacy—from the ground up.

Influencing regional and global advocacy platforms

The recommendations from children were presented not only with Meta, Tiktok, and Roblox 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, Philippine National Data Privacy Conference, among others.

Co-created advocacy actions and campaign materials with children

#SafeWeb4Kids is a pioneering regional online safety campaign co-created 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.

When children lead, change becomes authentic, powerful, and lasting.

Child-led advocacy allows children to:

• Understand and claim their rights, especially in navigating risks like online violence, misinformation, and privacy breaches;
• Shape digital safety, privacy, and AI policies that directly affect their online experiences;
• Mobilize their peers, families, schools, and communities to build safer, more inclusive, and more empowering digital ecosystems;
• Hold governments and tech companies accountable, ensuring that duty-bearers respond to real issues children face online.

“It’s our right to speak. The digital world is part of our life, so our ideas should matter.”

– From a child advocate during the 2024 Regional Children’s Consultation on GenAI

“Games should be safe, fun, and fair. We want companies to listen to us because we’re the ones playing!”

– From a child participant during the 2025 Regional Children’s Consultation on Online Gaming

• We co-create programs, consultations, campaigns, and advocacy with children across Asia, ensuring their perspectives consistently shape how we advance children’s digital rights in the region.
• We build on opportunities in the digital environment to realize child rights, while addressing online risks.
• We link online and offline experiences when designing and evaluating interventions.
• We recognize diversity—interventions must reflect children’s varied contexts, genders, access levels, and capacities.
• We aim to bridge the digital divide in access, skills, and adult support.
• We want to promote child-friendly, quality information online in languages children understand.
• We want to protect children’s privacy and civil and political rights online.
• We want to improve digital and media literacy among children, parents, caregivers, and teachers.
• We respect children’s evolving capacities in all digital policies and programs.