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Child Rights and Safety in the Digital Environment Contribution to the OHCHR consultation under Human Rights Council resolution 56/6

Executive summary

Lebanon needs a comprehensive framework that protects children from digital harm while enabling them to exercise their rights to information, education, privacy, expression and participation. The National Human Rights Commission, including the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (NHRC-CPT), recommends regulation that addresses platform design, commercial incentives and access to remedies, supported by digital education, psychosocial services and effective investigations. Age restrictions require evidence of their necessity and proportionality, clear safeguards and examination of less intrusive alternatives.

This report contributes to the OHCHR process established under Human Rights Council resolution 56/6. It follows the concept note’s thematic structure and consolidates the Commission’s responses to the global call for inputs. The analysis considers artificial intelligence because it affects content generation, recommendations, moderation, age assurance, and access to services. 

The Commission’s 2026 report on protecting children in the digital environment identifies interconnected risks: online harassment and exploitation, harmful content amplified by recommendation systems, extensive profiling, manipulative design and emerging abuse involving synthetic imagery. It examines Lebanon’s existing legislation, the initiative to prepare a national strategy, and proposals concerning social media restrictions, digital violence and AI governance. These developments demonstrate policy attention, but the source material does not establish effective implementation or measurable reductions in harm.

The Commission’s subsequent advisory opinion of 25 August 2026 assesses two social media proposals and recommends against adopting either in its current form. Its concerns include broad exclusions, insufficient legal clarity, inadequate age-assurance safeguards and weak independent review. We recommend graduated obligations linked to specific risks and service functions, with strong privacy defaults and enforceable responsibilities for providers. 

The principal recommendations are to adopt a funded national strategy; establish child rights impact assessments for public measures and digital services; strengthen independent oversight; provide inclusive participation and accessible remedies; protect secure communications; avoid criminalizing children’s narrowly defined consensual private conduct; and improve cross-border cooperation. International support should help countries implement established standards through technical assistance, comparable evidence and accountable corporate practices across languages and markets.

1 Purpose, scope and evidence

This submission primarily concerns Lebanon within the Middle East and North Africa region. It is prepared from the perspective of an independent national human rights institution, rather than a technology provider. It addresses questionnaire questions 7 to 22 through a connected analysis and concludes with implementation priorities and a proposed global framework.

The principal sources are the OHCHR concept note, the Commission’s 2026 publication Protecting Children in the Digital Environment, the Commission’s August 2026 advisory opinion, and relevant UN guidance on privacy and children’s conduct. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 25 provide the governing framework. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Children’s Rights and Business Principles inform the treatment of corporate responsibility. 

This is a legal and policy contribution. It does not present a nationally representative survey, direct consultation findings from children, a company audit, or an evaluation of implemented interventions. Recommendations concerning disadvantaged groups and remedies identify matters requiring assessment; they should not be interpreted as measured prevalence findings. The absence of documented participation or corporate practice in these sources is an evidence gap, not proof that no activity occurs.

Legislative proposals are described as proposals as identified in the cited sources. Their subsequent enactment or current parliamentary stage is not asserted. The original report contains inconsistencies in some proposal dates and penalty details. For the two social media proposals, this submission follows the Commission’s later advisory opinion and avoids relying on disputed fine amounts. No claim is made that the initiatives have already achieved their expected outcomes.

2 The rights framework

The concept note defines safety through the full range of children’s rights. Protection from violence and exploitation must be considered alongside privacy, expression, information, participation and development. Safety measures can also cause harm if they expose personal data, exclude disadvantaged children, or suppress legitimate information. Restrictions must satisfy applicable requirements of legality, necessity and proportionality. 

Non-discrimination requires assessment of how services and protective measures affect children differently. Relevant factors include age, gender, disability, language, minority or migration status and economic circumstances. The best interests of the child require assessing affected rights and interests, with commercial interests subordinated to children’s protection and development. Declaring an intervention protective without evaluating its consequences does not fulfill either principle.

Evolving capacities require graduated support and progressive autonomy. The same feature may pose different risks for a young child and an older adolescent. Regulation should therefore examine functions, contexts and evidence, while ensuring that parents’ guidance supports children’s rights. Family involvement should not obstruct access to confidential assistance where seeking parental permission could expose a child to harm.

The right to be heard applies to product design and governance as well as legislation. Participation must influence decisions and include feedback explaining what changed. Child rights impact assessments should take place before adoption and after implementation, addressing protection, access, privacy and equality together. Assessments should be updated when technology, service functions or evidence change.

3 Risks and structural drivers

3 1 Violence, exploitation and abuse

The Commission’s report identifies cyberbullying, harassment, grooming, exploitation and technology-facilitated violence as major concerns. Digital services can facilitate repeated contact, rapid dissemination and persistence of abusive material. Electronic extortion and non-consensual intimate imagery can expose children to psychological and social harm. Girls’ exposure to sexualised abuse requires particular attention without stereotyping victims or overlooking boys and other affected children. 

Responses must address perpetrators, prevent recurrence and provide confidential support. Content removal alone may leave threats, contact risks, and distress unresolved. Child-sensitive reporting should connect platform action with protection services and, where appropriate, lawful investigation. Children should receive explanations of what happens next and should not be required to circulate abusive material to obtain help.

3 2 Harmful exposure and health

Recommendation systems optimized for engagement can repeatedly direct children to sensational, distressing, or misleading material. The report discusses content concerning unrealistic body standards, self-harm, dangerous challenges and discriminatory narratives. Repeated exposure may reinforce existing vulnerability, although the report does not provide national causal estimates for particular health outcomes. 

Infinite scrolling, autoplay, notifications and social validation counters can make disengagement difficult. These features may contribute to disrupted sleep, difficulties concentrating and pressure to remain connected. Assessment should examine actual design and use rather than treating screen time as a complete measure of harm. Beneficial learning, supportive relationships and creative participation should also be considered.

3 3 Data practices and commercial incentives

Advertising-funded services have incentives to collect behavioral information, predict preferences, and prolong engagement. Children may not understand the extent of tracking or how inferred vulnerabilities influence advertising and recommendations. Data gathered across services can undermine privacy even where each individual interaction appears ordinary. Protective regulation should address collection, inference, retention, sharing, and commercial use. 

Businesses capable of changing these practices should bear responsibility. Digital literacy can help children understand risks but cannot substitute for limits on exploitative profiling or manipulative design. Provider obligations should extend to relevant advertising and technology relationships where businesses cause, contribute to, or are directly linked to adverse impacts.

3 4 Artificial intelligence across services

Generative AI creates additional risks through impersonation, fabricated intimate imagery and misleading content. The report considers a proposal addressing non-consensual AI-generated intimate or degrading images. Prevention should also include provider testing, restrictions on abusive generation, appropriate handling of reports and protection of children’s images and inputs. 

AI can influence which content children see, whether complaints receive attention and whether users pass age checks. These systems require assessment of errors and unequal effects. Moderation or age-assurance decisions should be explainable and challengeable where they materially affect rights. Claims that a system is protective should be supported by testing across relevant languages and user groups.

3 5 National context and evidence priorities

The report identifies a fragmented Lebanese framework in which existing criminal, child protection and data legislation offers partial safeguards. Coordination matters because digital harms may require action by education authorities, protection services, police, courts and providers. A national response should define responsibilities and provide resources for the services expected to act. 

Research should examine access costs, device availability, digital skills and access to confidential support. These factors can influence both vulnerability and opportunity. Assess local-language moderation and reporting, including Arabic and other languages used by children in Lebanon. The submission does not claim measured deficiencies across all providers; it identifies priorities for independent evaluation.

4 Participation empowerment and equality

4 1 Participation in decisions

The source report recommends meaningful consultation with children in the national strategy process but does not demonstrate a systematic mechanism through which children’s views already shape regulation or products. The Commission recommends establishing such participation from the outset, when authorities define problems and consider alternatives. Adult organizations should support children’s participation without replacing their voices. 

Consultation should combine facilitated discussions, accessible digital feedback and offline opportunities. Recruitment should include children with disabilities, those outside formal education, refugee and migrant children, and children facing economic exclusion. Voluntary participation, confidentiality, and safeguarding should be designed before consultation begins. Children should not be asked to publicly identify themselves as survivors or recount traumatic experiences as a condition of participation.

Authorities and companies should publish accessible explanations of how children’s views affected decisions. Where suggestions are not adopted, reasons should be given. Evaluation should consider influence on policies, features and remedies, rather than attendance alone. Participation should continue during implementation and review.

4 2 Differential impacts

Young children may require greater support, while adolescents need increasing autonomy and access to health, educational and civic information. Girls may face sexualised harassment and extortion; all children must have access to assistance. Inaccessible notices, interfaces or reporting procedures can prevent children with disabilities from understanding risks and obtaining help.

Refugee, migrant or stateless children may face barriers where age checks rely exclusively on accepted identity documents. Families with limited resources may be unable to access paid alternatives or newer devices required by verification tools. Blanket restrictions can widen inequalities if some children retain access through school systems or commercial services while others rely on free public platforms.

These are foreseeable pathways requiring investigation, not quantified national findings. Equality assessments should examine intersecting disadvantages and involve affected children. Providers should offer accessible alternatives, relevant languages and free review of erroneous exclusions. Essential assistance should not depend on unnecessary disclosure of identity or sensitive personal information.

4 3 Digital literacy and agency

The Commission recommends age-appropriate digital literacy within national educational curricula and community provision. Learning should address privacy, account security, consent, grooming, extortion, misinformation, recommendations and AI-generated content. Children should understand available support and how to report harm without increasing its circulation. 

Skills should also enable creativity, collaboration and civic participation. Teaching about risk should avoid implying that children are responsible for exploitation committed against them. Practical activities should help children understand why content appears, how advertising works and how settings can be changed. AI literacy should include checking outputs and avoiding unnecessary disclosure of personal information.

Educators need training and updated materials. Parents and carers need guidance that encourages dialogue and proportionate support, with attention to healthy sleep and communication. Community organizations should reach children outside school and those with limited connectivity through accessible materials and offline options. Children should help design and evaluate programmes.

5 State obligations and regulatory responses

5 1 Existing laws and national strategy

The report identifies the Penal Code, Law No. 422/2002 on juveniles in conflict with the law or at risk, Law No. 293/2014 on domestic violence and Law No. 81/2018 on electronic transactions and personal data as relevant existing instruments. It concludes that these provide partial protection without a comprehensive framework for digital services used by children. 

Council of Ministers Decision No. 13 of 26 February 2026, as described in the report, established an inter-ministerial committee to prepare a national strategy on children’s internet and application use. Inclusion of the NHRC President provides an opportunity for independent human rights input. The strategy should set objectives, responsibilities, funding and review arrangements, with public consultation and a substantive oversight role for the Commission. Its establishment alone does not demonstrate effective implementation.

5 2 Social media proposals

The Commission’s later opinion assesses a proposal registered on 15 December 2025 restricting under-sixteen access, with a parental exception and identity-document verification, and MP Tony Frangieh’s proposal of 25 February 2026 prohibiting accounts for children under fourteen and permitting suspension for repeated platform non-compliance. The opinion recommends against adopting either text in its current form because safeguards and justification are insufficient. 

The Commission’s original report examines the under-fourteen approach in detail and identifies the risk of excluding children from beneficial uses while leaving underlying design incentives intact. Age-based rules should be evaluated for circumvention, migration to less protected services, privacy consequences and unequal access. Educational exceptions may not cover every beneficial source of information, communication or support. 

5 3 Digital violence and AI proposals

The report describes proposals addressing cyberstalking, harassment, identity misuse, extortion and non-consensual imagery, including generated or altered intimate images. Their protective aims should be translated into clear offenses, appropriate responsibilities and child-sensitive remedies. Procedural support is essential because victims may need urgent assistance before a criminal case is concluded. 

Proposed AI governance institutions should be assessed for independence, expertise, coordination and clear mandates. New bodies should not create uncertainty about who protects personal data, assesses child rights impacts or handles complaints. This report does not assert enactment or effectiveness of the institutional proposals.

5 4 Legality, necessity, and proportionality

Before restricting rights, authorities should identify the harm and its evidential basis, define the affected services and functions, and explain how the measure addresses the risk. They should compare effective alternatives and assess costs to privacy, information, participation and equality. The resulting legislation must clearly define duties, enforcement powers, sanctions and review procedures. 

Protective defaults, restrictions on unsolicited messages and limits on profiling may address some risks more directly than a service-wide exclusion. These alternatives must also be evaluated, not presumed effective. Parents’ guidance should reflect evolving capacities, with protected access to confidential assistance when parental authorization would create danger.

5 5 Age assurance and privacy

Age assurance should establish only what is necessary for a defined safeguard. Providers should not routinely require full identity information where a less intrusive proof of an age threshold is sufficient. Collection should be minimized, retention limited, and reuse for advertising or tracking prevented. Independent testing should examine security, reliability and discriminatory errors. 

Children need accessible alternative methods and a way to challenge errors. A system should not assume every child has accepted identity documents, a current device, or a safe family setting. Oversight should evaluate both false admission to high-risk functions and wrongful exclusion from beneficial services. The law should specify essential safeguards instead of leaving them entirely to provider discretion.

5 6 Content algorithms and liability

Regulation should distinguish illegal exploitation and abuse, lawful content presenting developmental risks, and legitimate information. Vague descriptions of harmful content can lead to the suppression of health resources, news, or minority expression. Age-appropriateness should depend on evidence and context, with transparent decisions and an appeals process. 

Providers should assess whether recommendations repeatedly amplify harmful material and provide meaningful controls, including alternatives to behavioral profiling. Researchers and oversight bodies need access to information sufficient for scrutiny, with privacy and legitimate confidentiality protections. Moderation should be resourced in relevant languages and evaluated for errors.

Liability should distinguish perpetrators, intermediaries, and providers’ own design failures. Hosting material should not automatically be equated with creating it, but providers should be accountable for breaching defined duties. Corrective orders and sanctions should reflect severity, knowledge, recurrence and the rights affected. Service-wide blocking requires particular scrutiny because of its effects on lawful users.

6 Business responsibilities and remedies

6 1 Due diligence throughout the product lifecycle

The concept note places corporate responsibility within the UN Guiding Principles and the Children’s Rights and Business Principles. Providers should identify and address impacts before deployment and throughout operation. This requires examination of foreseeable misuse, advertising, data flows, recommendations and business relationships, with child participation and specialist expertise. 

The source report does not contain a company-by-company audit. It therefore cannot establish that named providers have fulfilled their responsibilities in Lebanon. Reporting should distinguish announced measures, implementation evidence and measured outcomes. Public impact-assessment summaries should identify risks and responses without exposing children’s data or security-sensitive details.

Providers should adopt high privacy settings, safe contact defaults and accessible controls. They should assess manipulative interfaces and remove incentives that exploit vulnerabilities. AI providers should test abusive generation, inappropriate interactions and personal-data disclosure, and establish escalation procedures when safeguards fail. Significant changes require renewed assessment. 

6 2 Access to remedy

Promising mechanisms provide understandable reporting, urgent escalation, human review, explanations and appeals. Remedies may include removing abusive material, stopping contact, restoring incorrectly restricted accounts, correcting or deleting unlawfully processed data and preventing recurrence. Other forms of reparation may be warranted, depending on the harm and applicable obligations.

Children and trusted representatives should be able to use mechanisms in relevant languages and accessible formats. Reporting should not require excessive identity disclosure or redistribution of sexual abuse imagery. Companies should explain confidentiality and any reporting obligations, securely maintain necessary evidence, and avoid procedures that discourage assistance.

Company mechanisms should complement access to independent oversight and public remedies. Children should not have to waive legal rights to obtain platform assistance. Published metrics should cover timeliness, successful appeals, recurrence, and complainant experience. Removal volume alone cannot demonstrate meaningful protection.

6 3 Responsibilities across company sizes and markets

Global providers should maintain effective local-language support and clear cross-border escalation. Protection should not vary solely with a market’s commercial importance. Regional providers and smaller businesses also have responsibilities proportionate to their activities and impacts. At minimum, they need a responsible contact, documented escalation, safeguarding arrangements and cooperation with lawful remedies.

Shared technical resources and standard procedures can support smaller businesses. These arrangements should not transfer their accountability to public services or families. Regulators should prioritize high-risk functions and recurring failures, while providing practical guidance and predictable enforcement.

7 Privacy-secure communications and child justice

7 1 Protection from sexual exploitation

Secure communications protect children’s information and confidential contact with support services. OHCHR guidance on encryption cautions against blanket restrictions. Protection should combine safer contact design, confidential reporting, specialist investigations and action on identified abuse, with lawful access to necessary evidence. 

Intrusive powers require a precise legal basis, demonstrated necessity, consideration of less intrusive alternatives and limitations on scope and duration. Independent authorization and oversight, secure evidence handling and effective remedies should accompany their use. A child-protection objective alone does not establish proportionality.

The Commission recommends avoiding systemic backdoors and indiscriminate monitoring of private communications. Detection proposals should be evaluated for actual security consequences, errors and unequal effects. Children should be able to report particular communications voluntarily without weakening the security of everyone’s communications.

Identified child sexual abuse material requires prompt lawful action, secure preservation of necessary evidence and victim support. Cooperation should help disable access and address recurrence across services. Children should not be asked to download, retain or redistribute abusive material themselves to substantiate a report.

7 2 Avoiding overcriminalisation

General Comment No. 25 states that children’s self-generated sexual material possessed or shared with consent solely for their own private use should not be criminalized. This narrow safeguard does not cover coercion, exploitation or non-consensual dissemination. Children subjected to grooming or extortion should be protected from punishment for material produced through victimization. 

Peer conduct requires individual assessment of age, evolving capacities, power differences, coercion, intent and harm. Abuse by a peer must be taken seriously without automatically applying adult criminal responses. Education, safeguarding, counseling and appropriate diversion should be prioritized where they can provide protection and accountability.

Where proceedings are warranted, children require legal assistance, understandable information, privacy, the right to be heard, the presumption of innocence and access to review. Victims and witnesses should receive specialist support and avoid unnecessary repeated interviews. Restorative approaches must be voluntary and independently assessed for safety; no child should be pressured into contact with an abuser.

Training should help investigators distinguish consensual private conduct from exploitation. Review should examine unequal enforcement and lasting consequences. The best interests of the child should guide protection, investigation, remedy and rehabilitation.

8 Systemic support and implementation

8 1 Public services and enforcement capacity

A national framework needs funding for schools, psychosocial support, complaints handling and specialist investigation. Reporting pathways should connect children with timely assistance and clarify responsibilities between providers and public authorities. Digital literacy should reach children beyond formal schooling, including those with limited connectivity. 

Police, prosecutors and courts need training in child-sensitive interviewing, digital evidence and privacy safeguards. Cross-border requests should be lawful and limited to relevant information. Technical capability should be accompanied by supervision and accountability. A strategy that creates duties without operational budgets is unlikely to provide reliable protection.

8 2 Proposed implementation priorities

The following program is a recommendation, not an adopted government commitment. Sequencing should be adjusted through consultation, baseline assessment and available resources.

Proposed stage Priority actions Evidence of progress
First six months Map responsibilities and services; establish child consultation; assess legal and reporting gaps; cost the national strategy Published responsibilities, consultation feedback and a funded implementation proposal
Six to twelve months Prepare legislation and standards; train educators and specialist investigators; introduce accessible complaint pathways Impact assessments, trained personnel and functioning referral procedures
Twelve to twenty four months Enforce priority duties; undertake independent evaluations; expand support and cross-border cooperation Published outcomes, appeal results and corrective action on identified failures

 

Authorities should set measurable indicators after establishing baselines. These should include reporting accessibility, time to urgent protective action, recurrence, wrongful exclusions, privacy incidents, and children’s experience of support. Numbers of takedowns, prosecutions or training sessions should be interpreted alongside outcomes and unintended effects.

The Commission should contribute independent scrutiny within its mandate. Government, businesses and civil society should publish sufficiently clear information for evaluation. Monitoring arrangements should protect children’s confidentiality and avoid unnecessary central databases of sensitive information.

9 International cooperation

The central cooperation gap is the distance between international standards and national implementation capacity. Services operate across borders while protection, evidence procedures and remedies remain fragmented. Countries with fewer technical and financial resources need sustained support to assess products, enforce duties and assist victims. 

Cooperation should establish reliable contact points for urgent reports, lawful evidence preservation and victim assistance. Common procedures should protect privacy and due process and avoid displacing national remedies. Language support is necessary for children and families who cannot navigate a provider’s principal international language.

Shared expertise can support impact assessments, algorithmic scrutiny, age assurance, and AI testing. Research should use comparable indicators without requiring unnecessary exchange of identifiable information. International cooperation should also address uneven corporate safeguards across markets and support regional providers and smaller businesses.

Children, national human rights institutions and civil society should participate in setting cooperation priorities. Technical assistance should be evaluated for continuing local capability and protection outcomes. Short projects or agreements without funded follow-up may leave essential services unable to sustain their responsibilities.

10 Options for a global implementation framework

The Commission recommends an implementation framework anchored in the Convention and General Comment No. 25, informed by established business responsibility standards. Its purpose should be to translate existing obligations into practical safeguards, comparable evidence and cross-border remedies. The OHCHR process offers a basis for identifying gaps and avoiding duplication. The concept note also situates digital governance within the Global Digital Compact’s commitment to human rights. 

An implementation compact could set priorities for national plans, coordinating bodies, budgets and public reporting. Adaptable model standards could address due diligence, protective design, advertising, recommendations, AI, age assurance and complaints. A cooperation network could connect regulators, justice institutions, protection authorities and national human rights institutions.

A technical assistance mechanism should provide tools, expertise and sustained support to countries with limited capacity. Accountability should include independent evaluation, children’s participation and periodic revision as products and evidence change. Reporting should be connected to existing processes wherever possible, with common information requirements that reduce administrative burden.

States would establish and enforce obligations and provide public remedies. Businesses would assess impacts, address risks, and provide accessible grievance mechanisms. International organizations would coordinate assistance and knowledge sharing. National human rights institutions and civil society would contribute independent monitoring. Children would participate safely in governance and review.

Initial implementation could use guidance, coordinated commitments and model standards. Assess whether additional binding provisions are needed against specific gaps and implementation evidence. Any new instrument should explain the problem it resolves, its enforcement arrangements and its relationship to existing obligations.

11 Recommendations to the OHCHR process

We recommend that the consultation report distinguish documented practices from proposed safeguards and independently evaluated outcomes. This would help States adopt measures with a clear understanding of their evidence and limitations.

The process should promote child rights impact assessments before and after interventions; a common approach to transparent corporate reporting; accessible cross-border complaints; privacy-preserving age assurance; protection of secure communications; and safeguards against criminalizing children’s narrowly defined consensual private conduct. It should support inclusive participation and accessible child-friendly explanations of its findings.

For countries such as Lebanon, implementation support should connect regulation with education, psychosocial assistance, specialist investigation and independent oversight. Progress assessments should examine protection and opportunity together, including whether measures exclude disadvantaged children or discourage confidential help-seeking.

Annex A Relationship to the questionnaire

Questionnaire questions Report sections
7 and 8 Risks and design 3
9 to 11 Participation equality and literacy 4
12 to 16 State responses and restrictions 5 and 8
17 and 18 Business responsibility and remedy 6
19 and 20 Privacy and child justice 7
21 and 22 Cooperation and framework options 9 to 11

 

Annex B Explanation for children and young people

You have rights online, including the right to learn, express your views, protect your privacy and get help when someone harms you. Governments and companies have responsibilities to make digital services safer. Your views should help shape those services and the rules that apply to them.

This report asks for safer settings, clearer information and easier ways to report problems. It also asks decision-makers to check whether restrictions unfairly prevent some children from accessing information or support. Companies should explain their decisions and offer a way to challenge mistakes.

If you experience threats, grooming, or abuse, you deserve help without blame. You should not have to publicly share your experience or forward abusive images to prove what happened. Education can help you make informed choices, but adults and companies remain responsible for the harm they cause, and for the protection they are required to provide.

References

[1] Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Concept Note on the Human Rights Council Process on Children’s Rights and Safety in the Digital Environment, https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2026/call-inputs-child-rights-and-safety-digital-environment.

[2] Bassam Al Kantar, Commissioner for International Relations and Information, Protecting Children in the Digital Environment: Social Media Restrictions, Platform Accountability, and Human Rights Implications for Lebanon (National Human Rights Commission including the Committee for the Prevention of Torture [NHRC-CPT], 2026), https://nhrclb.org/en/archives/6956. 

[3]  National Human Rights Commission including the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (NHRC-CPT), Advisory Opinion on the Two Proposed Laws Concerning Minors’ Use of Social Media, 25 August 2026, https://nhrclb.org/archives/8227.

[4] Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No. 25 (2021) on Children’s Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment, UN Doc. CRC/C/GC/25, https://ls-cts.unog.ch/sites/default/files/2021-06/CRC_C_GC_25_ENG-CHI_BT.html. 

[5] Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Civic Space and Tech: Guidance on Encryption, https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/civicspace/resources/civic_space_protection_encryption_brief.pdf 

[6] Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Submission to the Reconvened Concluding Session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the United Nations Cybercrime Convention, 2024, https://www.unodc.org/documents/Cybercrime/AdHocCommittee/Reconvened_concluding_session/Written_submissions/OP7/OHRC_AHC_Cybercrime_-_reconvened_concluding_session.pdf 

[7] United Nations Human Rights Council, Resolution 56/6: Safety of the Child in the Digital Environment, adopted on 10 July 2024, UN Doc. A/HRC/RES/56/6, https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/RES/56/6.

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