release "A safe internet campaign for our children" In partnership between the Arab League and the Arab and Emirati Childhood Councils and UNICEF
Abu Dhabi, September 18/ WAM/ The General Secretariat of the League of Arab States, in partnership with the Arab Council for Childhood and Development, the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood in the UAE and UNICEF Regional Office, launched the second campaign “Protecting children on social media”, under the slogan “Safe Internet for our children”, in the framework of the 29th session of the Arab Childhood Committee headed by the Republic of Djibouti, today, through the technique National mechanisms concerned with childhood in Arab countries, civil society and regional and international organizations.
His Excellency Al -Reem Bint Abdullah Al -Falasi, Secretary -General of the Supreme Council of Motherhood and Childhood, stressed that social media has become one of the channels that greatly affects the formation of children and the formation of their convictions and behaviors, which requires working hard to monitor what reaches them and reaching the contents and digital contents, and ensuring that they protect them from abnormal and extremist ideas, and prevent them from being exploited in any way.
She said that the electronic space in our time is filled with sickness and fat, and that preventing the child from being in it and seeing its contents has become not possible, in light of the technical means that develop with unprecedented acceleration on the one hand, and the necessities of using modern technologies that have become essential in many aspects It may involve negatives on physical, intellectual and behavioral levels.
Her Excellency pointed out that the Internet in general and social media specifically, it involves severe risks to children and adolescents, foremost of which are inappropriate content, electronic bullying and bullying, and fraud using applications and sites in which young people interact, which may be exploited by weak souls and those who defraud to obtain the child’s personal information and encourage him to contact them and communicate with them in preparation for their exploitation and deception, As well as other risks such as electronic addiction, the resulting physical exhaustion, and other negatives that may threaten their mental and physical health.
She praised the campaign and its awareness materials and methods that contribute to building awareness and promoting immunity for the child in the electronic field at the level of the Arab world, and thus empowering the safe use of digital technologies and platforms, and protecting young people from the children of our society who are the pillar of the future and its article, from attempts to distort, exploit, intellectual and behavioral deviation, to the construction of an Arab generation capable of employing modern technologies and benefiting from them and harnessing them to contribute to contribution In the march of development and the advancement of the Arab world, while preserving the ethics, authentic and high values and good behaviors that are distinguished by our Arab societies.
The campaign included producing videos, high -quality cartoon directed to children entitled “Alpha and Zain”, in Arabic, English and French, and the idea of cartoon – consisting of five episodes – is a review of situations that pass through the life of a modern family, during which it provides several awareness messages, based on the effective positive use of the Internet, awareness of ethics of artificial intelligence use, confronting electronic bullying, as well as ways to confront social media addiction By organizing time and balance between realistic and virtual life, as well as ways to verify false and false news published on the Internet.
The launch of the second campaign of the “Safe Internet for Our Children” campaign comes in implementation of the recommendations of the Arab Childhood Committee, and in connection with the first campaign launched in 2021, titled “A Thousand GB and Gig To protect and enhance the rights of children in the means of communication and modern technology.
During the launch, the campaign promo was shown, which can be seen successively by two episodes per week on social media, through this link:
Promo link – https://ddei5-0-CTP.TrendMicro.com:443/wis/clictime/v1/quness?url=https%3A%2 F%2FDrive.google.com%2FDrive%2FFOLDEDERS%2F1izfo8obdyf0W%5FCA4M1D1LRWVFRE%2DWA LB%3FUSP%3DSHARE%5FLINK & UMID = D3DF2E0A-3EFE-B206-8860-194451CA67F4 & Auth = D95B3 1BF2228f812d834cf2cf03f5e34FA7215184-Feda7e89c572A9394BC8D757Cfcbd2a7a1f5fd2C
The episodes are scheduled to be presented to the Council of Arab Information Ministers, in a way that contributes to circulating them through official and private media institutions in member states, to educate children about the means of communication and modern technology, and to call for the perpetuation of their protection in the means of communication and modern technology through the production of educational programs and films.
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