UN Child Rights Convention: How About Online Rights?! (page 2)
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child needs to embrace
children's online lives, and Internet-safety education needs to
embrace the UN's new holistic view of children as participants
and stakeholders. This past week, "the world celebrated the 20th
anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
(UNCRC) – the most universally ratified human rights treaty,"
the European Commission reports. It adds that "the Convention is
the first international legally binding instrument establishing
minimum standards for the protection and safeguarding of a full
range of civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights
of all children around the world." As for children's online
rights, it says "significant progress has been made in the areas
of cyber security and combating child pornography especially
through the [EC's] Safer Internet programme". At this month's
Family Online Safety Institute conference in Washington, British
Member of Parli