A Rationale for Positive Online Content for Children (Report‪)‬

A. Maximizing online opportunities is a matter of children's rights Issued on the 10th anniversary of the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), this statement from UNICEF's Oslo Challenge indeed challenged nations to take forward the media and communication element of the Convention, now ratified by nearly all countries. These elements include children's rights to express their views freely in all matters affecting them (Art. 12), freedom of expression (i.e. to seek, receive, and impart information of all kinds) through any medium of the child's choice (Art. 13), freedom of association and peaceful assembly (Art. 15), protection of privacy (Art. 16), and to mass media that disseminate information and material of social and cultural benefit to the child, with particular regard to the linguistic needs of minority/indigenous groups and to protection from material injurious to the child's well-being (Art. 17).