This brief offers some guidance to help ensure we get children’s safety online right.

Protect Children has published a research report. The report examines the experiences and consequences of sexual violence and exploitation faced by victims both online and offline.

The G7 Digital and Technology Ministers (Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America) have, for the first time, defined a common set of principles for a safer and more secure digital space for minors. They call on digital service providers to use these principles as a guide for the design of their services and to work with the necessary partners to implement them.

Die Minister*innen für Digitales und Technologie der G7-Staaten (Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien, Japan, Kanada, das Vereinigte Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland sowie die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika) haben erstmalig gemeinsame Prinzipien für ein sicheres digitales Umfeld für Minderjährige definiert.

The UNICEF report was published in April 2026. The publication presents the perspectives of children and adolescents regarding their experiences in the digital world.

The United Nations is committed to ensuring that children and young people can grow up safely in a digital world, while actively involving young people themselves in this process. Since artificial intelligence is an increasingly important part of this, the UN is now seeking to learn about young people’s experiences.

The UNICEF working paper, published in March 2026, focuses on the perspectives of children and adolescents gathered through research.

All participants at the Global Age Assurance Standards Summit were invited to contribute to a conference communiqué. You can find more information here.

Representatives from industry and business, regulatory and administrative bodies, and civil society gathered in Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) this week, from 14 to 16 April, to exchange information on current developments in the field of age assurance. Following the two previous Global Age Assurance Standards Summits, which focused on the rationale and benefits of standardisation (2024) and the development of effective regulation (2025), this year’s conference centred on the implementation and realisation of age assurance measures.

Representatives from industry and business, regulatory and administrative bodies, and civil society gathered in Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) this week, from 14 to 16 April, to exchange information on current developments in the field of age assurance. Following the two previous Global Age Assurance Standards Summits, which focused on the rationale and benefits of standardisation (2024) and the development of effective regulation (2025), this year’s conference centred on the implementation and realisation of age assurance measures.