Submission to the Global Digital Compact

The UN Global Digital Compact is the opportunity to drive awareness and reinforce the global political commitment to the implementation of children’s existing rights as set out in the UNCRC and its General comments in the digital world and focus on political will. [...] • Ensuring the respect and fulfilment of the right of the child to be heard with regards to the digital environment, taking children’s views and the diversity of their situations into account by States in the development of laws, policies and by businesses in their activities, including in relation to the design, development, operation, and marketing of their products and services. [...] • Mobilizing, allocating and utilizing public resources to implement legislation, policies and programmes needed to address the increasing impact of the digital environment on children’s rights and to promote the equality of access to, and affordability of, services and connectivity. [...] • Ensuring the respect and fulfilment of the rights of the child to be heard in the digital environment, taking children’s views and the diversity of their situations into account in the development of laws, policies and frameworks. [...] • Recognizing that the digital environment is an essential space to enable children to exercise their civil and political rights and facilitating the creation of empowering and safe digital spaces for child human rights defenders (CHRDs) and the exercise by children of their civil and political rights online.