While local rules and regulation are inadequate to cover any ascertainment or accident happened. Following the reference of Human Rights and Rule of Law from Council of Europe to be your reference as Commonwealth country.
Fostering children’s trust and confidence in the Internet coupled with the protection of their dignity, security and privacy is a priority for the Council of Europe. The Internet is a space of freedom to express and communicate, to search for information and to learn, to work and to play. Access to the Internet thus offers great potential for children to exercise and enjoy their rights and values through the Internet.
At the same time, threats such as cybercrime and the sexual exploitation and abuse of children through information and communication technologies pose particular challenges.
Council of Europe standards related to the protection of children and the promotion of their rights include numerous treaties and recommendations, in particular the:
- Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (CETS 005)
- European Social Charter (CETS 035)
- European Convention on the Adoption of Children (CETS 202 as revised)
- European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CETS 126)
- European Convention on the Exercise of Children's Rights (CETS 160)
- Convention on Cybercrime (CETS 185)
- Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS 197)
- Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (CETS 201)
- Recommendation Rec(2006)12 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on empowering children in the new information and communications environment
- Declaration on protecting the dignity, security and privacy of children on the Internet, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 20 February 2008
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on measures to protect children against harmful content and behaviour and to promote their active participation in the new information and communications environment, adopted on 8 July 2009.
(Note: above sources redirect from Council of Europe, Human Rights and Rule of Law , http://www.coe.int)
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