This Wednesday, social media TikTok announced that in the coming weeks it will implement a daily usage limit for users under the age of 18. The accounts of young people on this video-sharing platform will automatically have one hour of usage set per day. This...
On February 7, the Safer Internet Day is celebrated and the newspaper O PÚBLICO has compiled a set of tools to help parents and educators manage what children see in the online world. This information is available at the following link: https://www.publico.pt/2023/02/02/tecnologia/noticia/controlos-parentais-proteger-novos-internet-2037434 Share For more...
Democracy, what do I want you for? This is the motto of the radio debate launched by TSF, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, with the aim of giving voice to young secondary school students on issues of social and human rights throughout history...
The new World Health Organization (WHO) study on adolescence in Portugal, entitled Health Behaviour in Shool-aged Children, presents the results of the latest surveys of 5809 Portuguese students in the 6th, 8th and 10th grades. The data was collected in April and was compared with...
The day after the 33rd anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on 20 November 1989 by the UN General Assembly, the bYou project and MILObs organised the online seminar "Children's right to participation and data protection: tensions and challenges". Four...
The city of Braga will host, in 2024, the Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network dedicated to the theme "20 years of UCCN: bringing youth to the table for the next decade". The decision was announced last October 31, in the city of Santos,...
Approved on 20 November 1989 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the right of every young person to express "their opinion freely in all matters affecting them" (Art. 12). At the same time, the...
"Shout out, speak out, do something, express yourself!" is the motto of the "Express yourself" campaign launched under the bYou project. The initiative aims to promote the participation and expression of children and young people up to 18 years old, give them a voice, listen...
The effects of Pandemic Covid 19 on education systems have made some of the problems they were already facing even more visible and accentuated: inequalities and exclusion generated by different factors (poverty, ethnicity, language, forced displacement, gender, sexual orientation, religion...
Now 19, Greta Thunberg continues to be an environmental activist representing the younger generation's fight against the climate crisis and "climate inaction". Her new book entitled The Climate Book will be launched on 7 November in Portugal.In an interview with Público about her new book,...