{"id":35923,"date":"2026-06-01T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35923"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:13:35","slug":"un-strengthens-online-safeguards-for-children","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/un-strengthens-online-safeguards-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"UN strengthens online safeguards for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The United Nations (UN) Human Rights office has issued a set of guidelines to enhance children&#8217;s safety online and protect their rights.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is a set of 10 guidelines, titled Getting Children&#8217;s Safety Online Right.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to media reports a major international study suggests there has been a sharp rise in what it calls &#8220;problematic&#8221; social media use among young people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Researchers came to the conclusion after surveying almost 280 thousand children aged 11. 13 and 15 across 44 countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21689,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-35923","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Guidelines to enhance children's safety online","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35924,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35923\/revisions\/35924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}