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Explore our curated resources and find valuable publications, tools and positions on children’s rights in the digital environment.

Person holding a smartphone displaying a screen with a warning icon inside an Instagram-style loading ring. The text on the screen reads: ‘Is Instagram now safe for teens’ Instagram Teen Accounts Case Study' with the 5Rights Foundation logo beneath it.
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  • Online Harms
  • United Kingdom

Case Study – Is Instagram now safe for teens?

This case study examines Instagram Teen Accounts to assess whether new safety features protect teens from risks like harmful content, hidden ads, and poor age assurance practices.
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  • Resources for industry stakeholders
  • AI
  • Child Rights
  • Global

Children & AI Design Code

The rapid rise of AI cannot be left unchecked. That is why we’ve created an actionable and practical framework to embed children’s rights and needs across the lifecycle of AI systems.
  • Resources for industry stakeholders
  • Services
  • Global

Advancing Trust & Safety: systems and standards for online safety professionals 

“Advancing Trust & Safety” explores the evolution of T&S into a global profession, highlighting systemic barriers and proposing solutions to empower professionals and improve digital safety.
  • Technical standards
  • Age-Assurance
  • Global

IEEE 2089.1-2024 – IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification

Framework for the design, specification, evaluation, and deployment of online age verification systems are established in this standard. This standard is the second in a family of standards focused on the 5Rights principles.
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Outcome Statement: Children Global AI Summit on Africa
  • Official documents
  • AI
  • Youth Engagement
  • Africa

Outcome Statement: Children Global AI Summit on Africa

Children from across the African continent gathered at the first-ever Children’s Global AI Summit on Africa in Kigali, Rwanda– and this statement is the outcome of what was discussed.
A tablet lying on a light grey surface displays a formal letter titled "Civil society’s urgent warning: The EU's Code of Practice for General Purpose AI final draft cannot abandon fundamental rights, and protections for children." The letter is addressed to Executive Vice-President Virkkunen and outlines concerns from various organisations about downgrading key protections in the AI Code.
  • Position papers
  • AI
  • European Union

Joint letter: the EU’s Code of Practice for General Purpose AI cannot abandon children

Civil society groups urge the EU to uphold children’s rights and fundamental protections in the Code of Practice for General Purpose AI, warning against voluntary safeguards that undermine the AI Act.
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  • Resources for industry stakeholders
  • AI
  • Child Rights
  • Global

Children & AI Design Code

The rapid rise of AI cannot be left unchecked. That is why we’ve created an actionable and practical framework to embed children’s rights and needs across the lifecycle of AI systems.
Joint letter: Re-examine Data (Use and Access) AI clauses
  • Policy & Regulation
  • AI
  • United Kingdom

Joint letter: Re-examine Data (Use and Access) AI clauses

The latest report from the Digital Futures for Children centre provides six principles to complement our understanding and interventions on tackling technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Report on Governing AI for Humanity
  • Official documents
  • AI
  • Child Rights
  • United Nations

Report on Governing AI for Humanity

The High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has published it’s final report, ‘Governing AI for Humanity’ to identify how to manage the benefits and challenges of AI, which includes important reference to children.
Baroness Kidron sits down with Professor Sonia Livingstone to discuss why AI accountability must not be left to tech experts.
  • Campaign Resources
  • AI
  • United Kingdom

Lecture: Tech Tantrums – When Tech Meets Humanity

5Rights Chair and founder Baroness Beeban Kidron delivered a public lecture setting out why the issues around AI must not be left to tech experts and unaccountable corporations.
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  • Position papers
  • AI
  • European Union

AI Act trilogues: the EU’s last chance to protect children

As the EU institutions enter into negotiations on the AI Act, we urge negotiators not to miss out on the chance to ensure that AI is safe for children by default and by design across the EU.
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  • Policy & Regulation
  • AI
  • European Union

Joint letter to the EU: Children’s rights in the AI Act

In a joint letter to Members of the European Parliament, 5Rights and seven other organisations demand strong safeguards in the AI Act to shield children from exploitation and ensure their wellbeing.
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  • Publications
  • AI
  • Global

Shedding light on AI: A framework for algorithmic oversight

Unveiling the hidden risks of AI on children, our new report introduces a four-step process to help regulators and digital services providers to assess and mitigated the harms of AI on children.