Insights/Learning
Learnings from participatory programmes with young people
Fondation Botnar is dedicated to supporting initiatives that collaborate with young people to create a better future for them and with them.
RIGHTS Click
Initiative
RIGHTS Click ensures young people’s voices are heard by policymakers and big tech for a safer and fairer digital world.
RIGHTS Click, developed by Amnesty International, is a six-year programme working to protect the rights of children and young people in the digital age. It puts their voices, in all their diversity, at the heart of research, campaigns and advocacy. The programme calls on governments and tech companies to change their policies and practices, promoting digital technologies and online spaces that are safe and supportive for the young people who use them every day.
- Partners
- Amnesty International
- Working in
- Argentina, Kenya, the Philippines
- Approach
- Research, human rights, education, campaigning and advocacy
- Focus
- Children and young people's digital rights
- Programme period
- 2022–2028
Challenge
Young people should be able to shape the digital world so central to their lives.
The daily lives of the first ‘digital generation’ are shaped by the digital world. It affects how they learn, earn, connect and grow up. Yet the technology is designed, regulated and used in ways that leave young people exposed to data harvesting, cyberbullying, online abuse and surveillance. Without the same protection online as they have offline, their human rights are at risk. Poverty and missing infrastructure mean many are even shut out of the online world altogether, deepening existing inequalities. The most important decisions about young people’s digital lives are happening without them in the room.
Young people should have a say in the digital systems that shape their lives.
Approach
Building a youth movement for digital rights
RIGHTS Click combines research, human rights education and youth-led advocacy to strengthen young people’s digital rights. Young people help investigate how digital technologies affect their rights, develop and lead campaigns, and advocate for change with governments and technology companies. Through initiatives such as the Digital Rights Champions and #FixTikTok, they bring their experiences and demands directly into national and global debates on digital rights.
