Amnesty International is hosting the Global Youth Summit on Digital Rights in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 13 to15 April 2024.
The three-day event, which will bring together hundreds of youth delegates from across the globe will provide a space for children and young people to share ideas and envision a world that respects their rights, health, and well-being online.
The summit will focus on issues affecting children and young people online including surveillance, harassment, and abuse, with the aim of supporting them to feel safe and be able to assert their rights and those of others online.
Delegates will also discuss ways in which children and young people can advocate and call on Big Tech to respect their rights online.
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Amnesty International’s Global Youth Summit on Digital Rights brings together child and youth human rights activists and their allies to envision a world that respects the digital rights, health and well-being of children and young people.
The purpose of the Summit is to:
- Build a Global Community committed to advancing the rights of children and young people in the digital world.
- Harness the reach and power of the internet to ensure voices of children and young people are heard and respected.
- Call on governments to guarantee a safe, rights-respecting digital environment and ensure equal access to the internet, recognising the diversity of the world’s child and youth population.
- Recognise the role children and young people play in finding solutions to the problems facing the world such as climate justice, racial justice, ending gun violence, sexual and reproductive health rights, and now the fight for a rights-respecting digital world.
Digital Rights Champions, a group of 15 children and youth leaders from across the world with passion, expertise and commitment to digital rights will lead discussions at the summit. They will be available for interviews along with Amnesty International senior leaders and allies, Erika Guevara Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy and Policy, Luciana Pol, Campaigns & Education Programme Director and Paola Garcia Rey, Deputy Director Amnesty Argentina.
For more information or to arrange interviews please contact: +44 (0) 20 7413 5566 or press@amnesty.org
