PROMOTING DIGITAL CHILD DIGNITY FROM CONCEPT TO ACTION 2017 - 2019

Casina Pio IV
14-15 November 2019

On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, representatives of the United Arab Emirates Government, and the Child Dignity Alliance hosted a joint ecumenical meeting on the protection of children in the digital world and the responsibility of the religious communities.

The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Child Dignity Alliance convened this new international meeting on the protection of children in the digital world at the Vatican on 14-15 November, inviting important religious leaders from different communities, experts, academics, policymakers, and technology industry leaders.

The meeting is a follow-up of the process that began with a joint commitment for protection of children during the Child Dignity in the Digital World meeting in 2017, which ended with the approval of the Declaration of Rome, and the Interreligious conference of the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities: Child Dignity Online, held in Abu Dhabi in 2018, which ended with the approval of the Declaration of Abu Dhabi. It is also a follow up of the first interreligious declaration of Pope Francis’ Pontificate, signed at the Casina Pio IV in December 2014, which stated that “in the eyes of God modern slavery, in terms of human trafficking, forced labour and prostitution, and organ trafficking is a crime against humanity”.

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