March 2, 2026

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March 2026 marks five years since the adoption of UNCRC's General comment No. 25 (GC25), which states that children's rights, as outlined under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, extend to the digital environment. The comment was a milestone for children across the world: providing guidance on how to implement, embed and advocate for children's rights in the digital age.

To mark the fifth anniversary of GC25, the Digital Futures for Children centre and 5Rights are organising an online event, launching two new reports:

• 5Rights' best practices report, which will examine what good has looked like over the past five years. 
  
• DFC's second GC25 report, which will look at how to assess impact across the world. Access the first report.
  

By identifying what works, we can look forward to what must happen next to ensure GC25’s standards are realised globally. The event will reflect on lessons learned across different regions and sectors, and set out priorities for the next phase of implementation.

Join us to celebrate this milestone, share learning, and look ahead to the future of children’s rights in the digital environment.

Date: 2nd March 2026

Times: 08:00 Brazil | 11:00 London | 12:00 CET | 18:00 Indonesia

How to join? Register via Zoom 

Speakers

Baroness Beeban Kidron

5Rights Founder and President, Member of the UK House of Lords

Baroness Kidron is a leading voice on children’s rights in the digital environmentand a global authority on digital regulation and accountability. She has played a determinative role in establishing standards for online safety and privacy across the world.

Baroness Kidron sits as a crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords. She is an advisor to the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, a Commissioner on the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, an expert advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, and Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation. She is a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics, where she chairs the research centre Digital Futures for Children, and a Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Before being appointed to the Lords she was an award-winning film director and co-founder of the charity Filmclub (now Into Film).

Prof. Dr. Sophie Kiladze

Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

X: @SophieKiladze, @UNChildRights1

Prof. Dr. Sophie Kiladze is a Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Prior to joining the UN CRC in 2021, she was elected Member of Parliament of Georgia, a Chair of Human Rights Committee as well as the Chair of the Child Rights Council. She is an author of comprehensive reforms in the field of child rights and social work in Georgia. She served as a Vice-Rector of the Police Academy. Since 2023 she is a member of the Council of Europe ECRI. Prof. Kiladze has an extensive academic experience, including the work at Max-Planck Institute for Public International Law in Heidelberg; teaching Public International Law, Constitutional Law and Child Rights Law at different universities, publishing books and articles. She is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg (Staatsexamen), Germany, holds PhD degree and is the Professor at Grigol Robakidze University.

Gina Bergh

Human Rights Officer at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

LinkedIn, X: @UNHumanRights

Gina Bergh is a Human Rights Officer at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), where she leads work on children's rights in the digital environment, including consultations on a global framework for the Human Rights Council and participatory research centering children's voices in digital governance. She recently joined the tech team after a decade in OHCHR's Child and Youth Rights Unit, where she worked on child participation, safeguarding, and support to the implementation of General Comment No. 25. She also contributed to consensus on the global Joint Statement on AI and the Rights of the Child. Before joining the UN, she led policy research on governance, accountability, and child rights at ODI in London, and worked on EU development policy at the UK Department for International Development. She holds an MA in International Relations from King's College London and a BA in Sociology from the University of Cape Town, with advanced training in international human rights law from Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

Dr. Kim R Sylwander

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Digital Futures for Children centre

Linkedin, X: @MediaLSE

Dr Kim R. Sylwander is a Postdoctoral Research Officer in the Department of Media and Communications at the . Kim’s research at the department focuses on children’s rights in digital environments.

Kim is interested in children’s everyday lived experiences in online environments. Much of her research has been devoted to exploring how youth culture is intertwined with digital technologies and affordances. Her research has further explored how norms regarding sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and age are practiced and exacerbated by platform design and algorithms.

Kim’s PhD research investigated girl’s exposure and engagement with sexualized and racialized hate on social media. Kim’s postdoctoral research investigated how young people practice and understand sexual consent in digital communication. The project explored themes such as intimate digital choreographies, the limits of consent in digital environments and sexual digital generationality. Kim has also headed research on the implementation of a new sexuality education curriculum through a practice based and collaborative research method in Swedish secondary school.

Kim has also worked on children’s rights for the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative on Violence against Children, at the Ombudsman for Children Sweden, ECPAT Norway and other civil society organizations, where she has headed various projects on children in online environments. Examples include government inquiries on the effects of pornography consumption on children and a number of reports on the online sexual exploitation of children. Kim has also held several expert positions in government inquiries in Sweden on sexual exploitation and the effects of digital media on children.

João Francisco de Aguiar Coelho

Child rights advocate and Lawyer at the Alana Institute

LinkedIn, X: @InstitutoAlana

João Francisco de Aguiar Coelho is a child rights advocate and lawyer for the digital axis of the Alana Institute (Instituto Alana). He is currently a master's student in human rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (USP).

Marie-Ève Nadeau

Head of International Affairs

LinkedIn and X: @MarieEve5Rights

Marie-Ève Nadeau is Head of International Affairs at the 5Rights Foundation, leading global efforts to advance children's rights in the digital environment. With a background in international law and human rights, she is a dedicated advocate working with governments, regulators, international institutions, civil society, and academic partners worldwide to embed children’s rights, safety and privacy by design and by default in AI, data protection, online safety, and technology governance more broadly.Based in Brussels, she has spent the last 5 years shaping policies and strengthening global frameworks, holding companies accountable across Europe, the African Union, and more than 15 countries, from Indonesia to Brazil.Before joining 5Rights, she advanced human rights with the EU delegation of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), supported UNDP projects on human rights and global supply chains, and volunteered with Québec without Borders in Peru to bolster community development initiatives.

Prof. Sonia Livingstone

Director of the Digital Futures for Children centre

LinkedIn and X: @Livingstone_S

Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at  LSE. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how the changing conditions of mediation are reshaping everyday practices and possibilities for action. Much of Sonia’s time these days is concerned with Children’s Rights in the Digital Age.

Sonia has published 20 books on media audiences, especially children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age (New York University Press, with Julian Sefton-Green) (view here). Her new book is Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children's lives (Oxford University Press), with Alicia Blum-Ross (view here).

Recipient of many honours, she has advised the UK government, European Commission, European Parliament, Council of Europe, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF, among others, on children’s internet safety and rights in the digital environment. Sonia served as chair of the LSE’s , Special Advisor to the House of Lords’ Select Committee on Communications, Expert Advisor to the Council of Europe, President of the International Communication Association, and Executive Board member of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety.

Sonia is Director of Digital Futures for Children, a joint LSE and 5Rights Foundation research centre. She has recently directed the Digital Futures Commission (with the 5Rights Foundation) and the Global Kids Online project (with UNICEF). She is Deputy Director of the UKRI-funded Nurture Network, contributes to the euCONSENT project, and leads work packages for two European H2020-funded projects: ySKILLS (Youth Skills) and CO:RE (Children Online: Research and Evidence). Founder of the EC-funded 33 country EU Kids Online research network, she is a #SaferInternet4EU Ambassador for the European Commission. She is a project lead for DIORA: Dynamic Interplay of Online Risk and Resilience in Adolescence as part of the MRC Digital Youth Programme.