Child rights impact assessments in relation to the digital environment: Developing global guidance: Summary of initial project findings
This 2024 UNICEF publication presents initial findings from a project on how child rights impact assessments (CRIAs) can be applied to digital business activities. It starts from the responsibility of businesses, under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Children’s Rights and Business Principles, to identify, assess and address risks to children’s rights. The publication reviews the existing CRIA landscape and identifies the need for stronger, more consistent approaches that can respond to rapidly evolving digital technologies and business models.
Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC Phase 2)
This 2024 UNICEF Innocenti report examines how digital games can contribute positively to children’s well-being when they are designed with children’s needs in mind. Based on empirical research with hundreds of children across six countries, it tests and further develops the RITEC framework, looking at dimensions such as autonomy, competence, emotions, relationships, creativity, identity, inclusion and safety. The report’s main conclusion is that digital play can support children’s well-being, but these benefits depend heavily on design choices.
Preventing and Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA): A Model National Response
WeProtect’s Model National Response (MNR) is a comprehensive framework designed to help countries develop coordinated national responses to online child sexual exploitation and abuse. It sets out the capabilities needed across policy and governance, criminal justice, victim support, societal prevention, industry, and media and communications. It is intended as an adaptable model that countries can apply according to their national context.
Framing the Future: How the Model National Response framework is supporting national efforts to end child sexual exploitation and abuse online
This 2022 WeProtect–UNICEF report reviews how the MNR had been implemented across 42 Alliance countries. It examines national approaches across six domains, including policy and governance, criminal justice, victim support, societal responses, industry, and media and communications. It identifies examples of good practice, implementation challenges and gaps, and sets out priorities for improving national and international responses to online child sexual exploitation and abuse
