Today is World Children's Day, marking the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. At the G20 Social Summit at Birchwood in Boksburg , leaders focused on key issues affecting children, including child poverty and online safety.
A global coalition of child online safety met for the first time at the Social Summit to coordinate and align on investments to protect children in digital spaces, warning that delays will multiply social and economic costs for years to come.
According to the latest data and evidence, 300 million children are subjected to technology-facilitated sexual abuse every year, and reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material have increased by 1 300 in the last year alone.
