Essay On Internet And Human Rights

Have you ever wondered how internet could infringe on a kid’s human rights? As we know, the internet is a tool that people use for several reason, but if some of these reasons are not the best, the internet could become a double edged knife. Nowadays, the percentage of people using the internet has increased. According to the researches done until June 30, 2017 by Internet World Stats (2017) Asia is the continent that have most of the users of the world, followed by Europe, Latin America- Caribbean, Africa, North America, Middle East and Oceania-Australia. (Picture 1). Indeed, internet is one of the most powerful weapons that we have nowadays for several reasons; however, over time internet has become in a tool capable of violating many human rights and in these human rights are the rights of kids. For this reasons, is necessary to inform people about two rights of kids that are being violating because of the inappropriate use of

At the present time, many children in the world are accepting request from strangers in social media and start a conversation, and there is a big probability that the person they are talking to is not the person who they claim to be. The purpose of this stranger persons is make the children believe that they are the person who they told at a beginning and then convince them to do inappropriate things, so day after day they gain their trust and achieve their goal. The reasons for which these persons called predators do this are different. In some cases, predators want to convince the children to take nude photos or make videos of themselves and send it to them. These photos and videos could be used for awful purpose like child pornography, and all that is related with this. Another case are the predators that want to convince children to meet each other face-to-face. When the day of the meeting arrives children are abducted to be abused, that is to say child trafficking for