A/HRC/12/23 page 19 organized for Insafe network members to upgrade their understanding of leading-edge technologies and teach them how to increase awareness among new generations of Internet users. 98. In Egypt, the Government, in partnership with Microsoft and NGOs, has developed material in Arabic aimed at promoting safe use of the Internet by children. In follow-up to the recommendations made at the International Conference on Effective Strategies for the Prevention of Child Online Pornography, Trafficking and Abuse, held in Bahrain in 2009, a handbook for children, young people, parents and professionals working with children is being prepared. 99. During the ECPAT make-IT-safe campaign10 in the Philippines, 600 Internet cafe managers adopted a code of conduct and developed mechanisms to guarantee the protection and safety of children using the Internet. In Peru, municipal Internet squads monitor public areas with Internet access and help them install filters to protect children. 100. Despite the tremendous efforts of all stakeholders in many countries, to date no study has been able to measure their impact. 101. Furthermore, those efforts have occurred mainly in the countries of the North; it would be desirable to expand and develop them in the countries of the South and thus make them available to children no matter where they are. 4. Moderate level of participation by children 102. In Australia the children that make up the Youth Advisory Group are also members of the advisory working group established under the country’s Plan for Cyber-Safety. The Youth Advisory Group cooperates with police, regularly updating them on developments in Internet use by children (for example, trends and languages); it also organizes awareness-raising activities in schools. In April 2008 the Today’s Youth Forum gave children aged between 11 and 16 an opportunity to discuss what needed to be done for more effective protection of child Internet users. From 19 to 21 July 2008 the International Youth Advisory Congress (IYAC) brought together 150 children from 19 countries11 in London and drafted a Children and Young People’s Global Online Charter 12aimed at making the Internet safer for children. 10 ECPAT international has organized similar campaigns in 67 countries (http://www.make-it-safe.net/eng/index.asp). 11 Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States and Zimbabwe. 12 Available online: www.ayac.net/iyac_charter.pdf.