CHILD ONLINE SAFETY TOOLKIT
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Global cooperation
The cross-border and transnational nature of the digital environment necessitates strong international and regional cooperation, to ensure that all stakeholders, including States, businesses and other actors, effectively respect, protect and fulfil children’s rights in relation to the digital environment. It is therefore vital that States parties cooperate bilaterally and multilaterally with national and international non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies, businesses and organizations specialised in child protection and human rights in relation to the digital environment. States parties should promote and contribute to the international and regional exchange of expertise and good practices and establish and promote capacity building, resources, standards, regulations and protections across national borders that enable the realization of children’s rights in the digital environment by all States. They should encourage the formulation of a common definition of what constitutes a crime in the digital environment, mutual legal assistance and the joint collection and sharing of evidence. Source: General comment No. 25 (2021), paras 123 & 124284
Objective: To collaborate with national, regional, and global organisations and players to share best practice.
Model policy text: To ensure a holistic approach to child online safety, each of the steps below is necessary. 10a. E stablish formal relationship frameworks (e.g. a Memorandum of Understanding [MoU]) with regional and global child online safety communities Strengthening international cooperation to enhance child online safety across the globe is critical to guarantee global security. Countries should formalise collaborations for joint Public Private Partnership investments in areas related to cybersecurity, child online safety capacity building, innovation, law enforcement, the justice system and education, among others. 10b. S ign up to regional and international legal instruments that promote cooperation on child online safety Countries should identify key regional and international instruments that will allow them to cooperate with other countries on child online safety. This should include, among other things: international agreements on law enforcement cooperation; international best practice; international programmes that may provide resources for cooperation on child online safety; and access to any human rights or related standards that will facilitate cooperation between countries.
284. General comment No. 25 (2021) on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment, UNCRC, 2021.
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