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(d)
Educate children and teenagers about safety on social media platforms and the
Internet; protecting their privacy online; the risks of sharing intimate images and footage;
and the fact that the non-consensual dissemination of such images and footage can be
considered a form of gender-based violence4, and possibly, in some jurisdictions, a crime;
(e)
Include in curricula, in accordance with the evolving capacity of the child,
comprehensive and accurate material on sexual, biological, physical and psychological
diversity and the human rights of people of all genders;
(f)
Ensure that children can acquire the knowledge and skills to protect themselves
and others as their sexuality develops;
(g)
Undertake privacy and gender impact assessments before introducing
innovations, including those intended to reduce the risks of online exploitation and abuse of
children and young people, to avoid inadvertent and harmful impacts, including reducing
access to gender information for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex young
persons;
(h)
Ensure, in relation to research on gender, that:
(i)
Personal information of and about children, accessed through research, is used
only for the purpose for which consent was given;
(ii)
Children, in accordance with their evolving capacities, participate in decisions
on research priorities;
(iii) Where appropriate and necessary, once the child has reached the age of legal
majority, consent (or reconsent) to participate in the research should be sought;
(iv) A supportive environment is created for children participating in
research;
(i)
Ensure, in relation to health care, that:
(i)
Health services employ trained personnel who fully respect the rights of
children to privacy and non-discrimination on the basis of gender;
(ii)
Rights-based, lifetime health-care protocols for intersex children and effective
independent oversight are developed and implemented;
(iii) Children are informed and fully consulted regarding modifications to their sex
characteristics necessary to avoid or remedy proven serious physical harm and that
such modifications have the consent of the child concerned, in accordance with the
evolving capacity of the child;
(iv) The confidentiality of test results is protected and not disclosed to third parties,
including parents, without the child’s consent;
(j)
Protect the right to privacy of children who are sold, trafficked, prostituted or
abused, including by avoiding the dissemination of information by which child victims are
identified;
(k)
Ensure that business enterprises protect and promote human rights by:
(i)
Integrating child rights considerations into all corporate policies and
management processes;
(ii)
Developing standard processes to handle child sexual abuse material in
conjunction with public authorities;
(iii)
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Creating safer online environments;
In some jurisdictions even the consensual sharing of images and footage can be considered a form of
gender-based violence and is possibly subject to criminal law. Without endorsing the validity of such
a position, the recommendation would, in that context, need to be interpreted as meaning that
educational authorities in those jurisdictions would be bound to educate children and teenagers about
the legal position in that particular jurisdiction.
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