Over 35 years after the adoption of child rights instruments, and four years after the publication of UN General Comment No. 25, which recognises that children’s rights extend to the digital environment, it is timely for all relevant stakeholders to reflect on how the proliferation of digital technologies and internet access is (re)shaping the exercise of children’s rights.
This experience- and knowledge-sharing conference aims to create a platform for all stakeholders, including students, researchers, judges, lawyers, and child rights practitioners, to learn from one another and incorporate best practices in promoting children’s rights in the digital environment.
This three-day conference will be held at the Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch 万博体育官网, on 9 to 11 September 2025.
The key dates are as follows:
- Deadline for the submission of an abstract: 25 April 2025.
- Decision for the selection of abstracts: 02 May 2025.
- Deadline for the submission of draft of the paper: 22 August 2025.
- International Conference on Children’s Rights: 9 to 11 September 2025.
- Deadline for the submission of the revised paper for publication: 15 November 2025.
Thematic Focus
The conference focusses on the following themes:
- Artificial intelligence, data protection and children’s rights, privacy and safety online
- Safer school environments and child rights-based cybercultures
- Children’s rights, digital parenting and the changing family
- The digital environment and child participation
- The platform economy, kidfluencing, and children’s rights
- Non-state actors, business and children’s rights
- Gender and children’s rights in the digital environment
- Children with disabilities and other situations of vulnerability
- Institutional mechanisms for protecting children in the digital sphere
- Cross-cutting topics
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