Chapter IX: Children with disabilities and Chapter X: Health and welfare

The European Commission has developed a new strategy to protect children’s rights.

The European Commission has developed a new strategy to protect children’s rights

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has published a General Comment on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment.

Explanatory Notes on the General Comment No. 25 (2021) on Children’s Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment.

The Terminology Guidelines provide guidance for the understanding and use of terms and concepts for individuals and agencies working for the prevention and elimination of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children.

The Optional Protocol is a supplement to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and obliges all signatory parties to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and depiction of sexual abuse of children (so-called child pornography).

The Guidelines adapt the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocol to today's (digital) environment.

In April 2019, the British government published a White Paper on Online Harms, which takes a multi-stakeholder approach to further develop the…

The guidelines to respect, protect and fulfil the rights of the child in the

digital environment were adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the

Council of Europe on 4 July 2018.

The purpose of the guidelines is to assist states and other relevant

stakeholders in their efforts to adopt a comprehensive, strategic

approach in building and containing the often complex world of the

digital environment.