• Topic

    Special Protection

    Children should be protected from all forms of exploitation prejudicial to any aspects of their welfare in relation to the digital environment.Exploitation may occur in many forms, such as economic exploitation, including child labour, sexual exploitation and abuse, the sale, trafficking and abduction of children and the recruitment of children to participate in criminal activities, including forms of cybercrime.

    By creating and sharing content, children may be economic actors in the digital environment, which may result in their exploitation.

Current news

Ansicht: Landkarte Kinderrechte

Children's Rights Map

The map is only available in German language.

With the map of children's rights, the monitoring body of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child of the German Institute for Human Rights shows to what extent individual children's rights are implemented and anchored in Germany's federal states.

Ansicht: Aspekte von Kinderschutz und Kinderrechten bei der Vergabe von Domainnamen

The Impact of Domain Names on Children’s Rights and Child Safety

The presentation explains domain name registration. It shows risks for children and countermeasures.

[Translate to Englisch:]

The State of the World’s Children 2017: Children in a Digital World

As the debate about whether the internet is safe for children rages, The State of the World’s Children 2017: Children in a Digital World discusses how digital access can be a game changer for children or yet another dividing line. The report represents the first comprehensive look from UNICEF at the different ways digital technology is affecting children, identifying dangers as well as opportunities. It makes a clear call to governments, the digital technology sector and telecom industries to level the digital playing field for children by creating policies, practices and products that can help children harness digital opportunities and protect them from harm.

[Translate to Englisch:]

The Declaration of Rome

From 3rd to 6th of October 2017 the Child Dignity World Congress took place at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. Among the 30 speakers at the congress was Jutta Croll, representing the project „Children’s Rights and Child protection“ at Stiftung Digitale Chancen. In a concluding audience the „Declaration of Rome“ was presented to Pope Francis by the congress participants, appealing governments, industry and the civil society to stand up for the protection of the rights and the dignity of children.

[Translate to Englisch:]

Children´s Rights in the German Business Activities

The rights of children comprise much more areas than child labour in the supply chain, such as family friendly workplaces, product security or marketing.

Within the first Germany-wide study on the topic “Children´s Rights in the German Business Activities” 485 companies have been contacted and 100 companies examined with a desktop study.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Jahresbericht 2014 des Zentrums für Internetschutz (I-Kiz) Zeitgemäßer Jugendmedienschutz

Annual Report 2014 of the Centre for Child Protection on the Internet (I-KiZ)

The task of the I-KiZ, the Centre for Child Protection on the Internet, together with youth media protection stakeholders from politics, business, science and practitioners,

was to provide a forum for the development of strategies for contemporary youth media protection and the promotion of better protection of children and adolescents.

[Translate to Englisch:]

Annual Report 2015 of the Centre for Child Protection on the Internet (I-KiZ)

The task of the I-KiZ, the Centre for Child Protection on the Internet, together with youth media protection stakeholders from politics, business, science and practitioners, was to provide a forum for the development of strategies for contemporary youth media protection and the promotion of better protection of children and adolescents.

Ansicht: Modell des Intelligenten Risikomanagements

The Intelligent Risk Management Model

Based on the findings of the HBI, the I-KiZ works with an Intelligent Risk Management model for youth media protection.

The model consists of an age-related concept designed both to avoid confronting children with harmful content and contacts, and to promote strategies to counter and deal with the same.

[Translate to Englisch:] Ansicht: Kinderrechte und die Rechte junger Menschen im digitalen Zeitalter eine Artikelreihe im Sage Journal; Ausgabe Vol 19, Issue 5, 2017

Children´s and young people´s rights in the digital age

In Vol 19, Issue 5, 2017 of the SAGE Journal in the New Media & Society category, there are a number of contributions to children's rights in the digital age.

Ansicht: Europaratsstrategie (2016-2021)

Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence

This new landmark treaty of the Council of Europe opens the path for creating a legal framework at pan-European level to protect women against all forms of violence, and prevent, prosecute and eliminate violence against women and domestic violence.

The definition of “women” includes girls under the age of 18.