1. Digital Access & Participation
2. Digital Health & Well-Being
3. Infrastructure & Capacity
4. Online Safety & Protection
5. Privacy & Data Protection
6. Violence & Exploitation Online

The overall picture points to online safety and protection as the primary area of concern, supported by the need for robust infrastructure and institutional capacity. Issues related to violence and exploitation are present but appear more moderate in urgency compared to overarching safety and capacity challenges. Digital access and participation remain relevant but do not dominate the findings. Digital health, wellbeing, and privacy concerns receive comparatively less emphasis, suggesting lower immediate urgency in these domains.

1. Awareness campaigns on safe internet use
2. Complaint & Reporting mechanisms
3. Safeguarding policies and accountability in digital media

Awareness campaigns on safe internet use dominate this theme, receiving by far the highest urgency score and indicating strong emphasis on preventive education. Safeguarding policies and accountability in digital media are present but score noticeably lower, suggesting they are acknowledged but less developed or less frequently highlighted. Complaint and reporting mechanisms receive no urgency score, pointing to limited attention or a lack of identified concerns in this area. Overall, the focus is clearly on awareness-raising rather than on enforcement or remedial mechanisms.

1. Cybercrime and cybersecurity laws
2. Digitalized systems
3. Training of professionals on online offences

Digitalized systems emerge as the most prominent issue within this theme, receiving the highest combined urgency score and indicating a clear need for further development and oversight. Cybercrime and cybersecurity laws are present with a moderate urgency score, suggesting that the legal framework exists but may require strengthening or updating. Training of professionals receives comparatively low urgency, pointing to limited attention to capacity-building despite its relevance. Overall, the data highlights a stronger focus on technological systems than on legal enforcement or professional training.

1. “Recalling its general comment No. 25 (2021) on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment, the Committee recommends that the State Party: Ensure that draft laws on access to information and the digital environment adequately protect children from harmful content and materials and online risks, and provide for mechanisms to prosecute violations; “
2. “Ensure that an online case tracking system for children in care institutions or host families is fully integrated into the national child protection system.”
3. “Enhance the digital literacy and skills of children, teachers and families, and protect children from information and material harmful to their well-being.”
4. “Strengthen its awareness-raising programmes, including campaigns, in cooperation with civil society organizations, to ensure that the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto are widely known among government officials and the general public, including media professionals, parents, persons in schools and mosques who work with children, and children themselves;”
5. “Promote the active involvement of children in public outreach activities, including in measures targeting parents, social workers, teachers and law enforcement officials, and encourage the media to ensure sensitivity to children’s rights and the inclusion of children in the development of those programmes.’
6. “… deeply concerned… Girls continue to be subject to multiple forms of gender-based discrimination from the earliest stages of their life and throughout their childhood due to the persistence of adverse and traditional attitudes and norms and that no systematic efforts have been undertaken, including none with religious leaders, opinion makers or the mass media, to combat and change discriminatory attitudes and practices;”
7. “… urges… To mobilize communities and the public at large by undertaking systematic efforts, in collaboration with the mass media, social networks and community and religious leaders, to change traditional attitudes, social norms and behaviours that contribute to discrimination against girls, children with disabilities, children of unmarried parents, children of migrant workers and children of foreign fathers; and promote tolerance and respect for diversity.”
8. “Strengthen its efforts in favour of breastfeeding, including by taking measures to publicize breastfeeding guidelines and fully implement the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, encourage flexible working arrangements and raise awareness among families and the general public, including through the media, of the importance of breastfeeding;”
9. “Expeditiously improve its data collection system and ensure that data collected on children’s rights cover all areas of the Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto, with data disaggregated by age, sex, disability, geographical location, ethnic and national origin and socioeconomic background, in order to facilitate analysis of the situation of children, particularly those in situations of vulnerability.”
10. “Organize the collection of data on children with disabilities and develop an efficient and harmonized system for disability assessment in order to facilitate their access to services, including education and health, social protection and support services;”
11. “Systematically collect data on nutrition for children, including those relevant to breastfeeding, overweight and obesity, in order to identify the root causes of overweight and obesity;”