The Our Digital World, Our Say project brings together the UN Human Rights Office, 5Rights Foundation and the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC), to meaningfully engage children in shaping how their rights are understood and protected in the digital environment.

In 2021, after consulting children around the world, the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted General comment No. 25. Since then, the digital landscape has rapidly changed, with the rise of generative AI, intensified data extraction, new online risks and widening inequalities in access. Children’s insights are more essential than ever.

Read the United Nations Human Rights Office's webstory for world children's day 2025.

Research agenda

Through child-friendly workshops delivered by partners around the world, this project creates space for children to share their online experiences, reflect on access, privacy, safety and participation, and propose practical recommendations for a more rights-respecting digital world. Their insights will feed directly into global advocacy, including a public report and inputs to ongoing UN human rights processes, helping ensure that children’s perspectives shape the decisions that affect them most.

We invite child rights organisations, human rights organisations and others to partner with us to conduct 2-hour workshops with children, using our methodology designed for either in-person or online workshops.

Timeline

27 November 2025: An information session for potential partners, where we will introduce the project and walk through the workshop methodology.

November-January: Workshops will be conducted by partners.

20 January 2026: Final deadline for submission of findings.

Early March 2026: Final report will be published by the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR).

Contact us

If you wish to conduct a workshop for this project please get in touch with Kim R Sylwander (DFC): k.g.ringmar-sylwander@lse.ac.uk and we will share the workshop manual with you.

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