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News - There are many online communities and resources for children who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. These are some things to look for to find reliable resources:
language (is the author affiliated with any LGBTQ+ organisations/do they speak from…
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News - Facebook has halted work on its Instagram Kids project after revelations about the photo-sharing app’s impact on teen mental health. Instagram was pausing work to address concerns raised by parents, experts and regulators to give themselves time to work with these persons…
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Dr. Deborah Webster studied the relationship between social media and adolescent wellbeing for three years. After that, she established Thrive Academy to help young people manage the negative sides of social media. Her Academy offers online lessons to parents, teachers,…
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News - Elsagate is a phenomenon on Youtube of reoccurring themes, animations and videos of inappropriate topics, available and targeted at children.
Origins and a short history
Elsagate existed since at least 2012 but reached its peak in 2017 when the term…
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Multimedia - The UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) is a collaborative forum through which government, the tech community, and NGOs work together to ensure the UK is the safest place in the world to be online. It is a voluntary and non-statutory body whose focus is mainly…
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News - Determining a person’s age online seems like a challenging problem. But new technology and laws could be on the brink of solving it.
Social media websites could ask for a selfie before logging in and determine the age of the user. After this, the adults would be able to use…
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Multimedia - 5Rights Foundation launches a new campaign with the title of Twisted Toys to raise awareness of the dangers children facing in the online world. On their website, each toy represents a kind of exploitation, surveillance and danger that children face…
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News - Researchers claim that 1 in 5 children’s apps available on Google Play don’t support COPPA rules. COPPA (in 1998, Congress enacted the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), enforces a number of requirements on operators of websites or online services that are aimed at…
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News - A new tool to help teenagers remove nude images or videos has been introduced by the IWF and the NSPCC's childline services and any person under 18 can report using the tool. The reports of self-generated images had doubled in the first three months of this year…
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News - The Deputy Executive Director of Programmes at ECPAT International, an organization that fights commercial sexual exploitation of children, explains 5 steps to protect children from the increase of online sexual abuse and exploitation that has occured…
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Multimedia - How can young people recognize content that is reliable and content that is misleading online? This research shines light on how dealing with misleading content has become a daily part of the online experience for many young people.…
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Online library - An estimated 34 million children and youth have been forcibly displaced, and many more are on the move in search of economic and educational opportunities.
Digital connectivity, digital data, and emerging technologies are changing how displaced people inform…
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Online library - Participating in risky online behaviours could result in children being exposed to upsetting or distressing content online and, potentially, serious forms of victimisation such as sexual harassment.
This report is based on data from the Growing up…
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Multimedia - At its 86th session, the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted its general comment No. 25 (2021) on children's rights in relation to the digital environment.
For this, all interested stakeholders were invited to express their views on the concept of…
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News - European consumers do not seem satisfied with the safety policy of TikTok, stating that minors are being exposed to inappropriate content. The Chinese-owned video-sharing app has received many complaints about violating the consumer rights of Europe. Moreover, the app has…
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News - The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has adopted General Comment 25 which ensures children's rights online. It includes children's civil rights, freedom, privacy, non-discrimination, protection, education and many other related topics in a digital…
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Event - According to The Digital Marketing Institute, The NSPCC and Ofcom (UK) reports 6 in 10 teens trust influencers more than traditional celebrities and more than 74% of 8–15-year-olds using YouTube with 40% of their YouTube content deriving from bloggers.
As…
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News - Baroness Beeban Kidron, the chair and founder of 5Rights Foundation, in her speech at the Digital Age 2021 conference raised major concerns about the online protection of children.
The culture of the internet requires kids to reveal increasingly more…
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News - STOP BULLYING! I Stop. I Speak. I Help. - is an information and awareness-raising campaign focused on the phenomenon of bullying in schools in Moldova. It will be carried out from December 2020 to April 2021. Terre des hommes (Tdh) Foundation Moldova launched this…
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Multimedia - A national information and awareness campaign on the phenomenon of bullying in schools from the Republic of Moldova was launched by Terre des hommes Foundation: STOP BULLYING! I stop. I talk. I Help.
According to a study, about 87%…
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Multimedia - Parents are often worried about how much time their child spends online and what he does while surfing the net. Luckily, there are some restriction options that can be activated to prevent harmful content from being exposed to children. These options are offered by the…
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News - UNFPA writes about a new campaign “Fight Like a Girl” developed by Gender Stream, a grassroots women's rights initiative from Dnipro, and UN Women in Ukraine, as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. Fight Like a Girl is a new online space free from…
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News - The Guardian reports on the possible dangerous situations caused by end-to-end encryption, a technology that makes it impossible to keep track of content sharing and increasing potential cases of abuse, because the shared content would only be available for those…
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Online library - In March 2020 the UK’s Children’s Commissioner polled 2,003 children aged 8-17 on their use of messaging platforms in an effort to understand the risks that these services may pose to both children and teenagers. The briefing explores the full range of online…
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News - Online privacy protections have gone through a major reform that came into force on December 20 in the European Union. However, the new law does not only affect the EU but the rest of the world as well, including children, who from now on are more easily exposed to online…
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Online library - The Non-Violent Childhood - Action Plan on the Prevention of Violence against Children 2020-2025 brings together policies for the prevention of violence against children aged 0-17. The Plan focuses as well on early…
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News - For the occasion of End Child Sex Abuse Day Marija Pejcinovic Buric Secretary-General from Council of Europe has spoken against the phenomenon of “sexy selfies” posted by children.
She highlights the need to…
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Online library - Bullying used to happen mostly in schools – now it can follow children anywhere they go. According to the Office for National Statistics’ latest report on online bullying based on a Crime Survey for England and Wales, around one in five children aged 10 to 15 years…
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News - Each year on or around 18 November, Europe raises awareness on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. The Council of Europe has held a webinar on how risks associated with sexual images and videos self-generated by…
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Online library - Adrienne Katz (Youthworks) in collaboration with Aiman El Asam (Kingston University, London) carried out a significant work on the relation of young people and online safety in their research, called Cybersurvey, The Digital Lives of Schoolchildren (https://www.…
