Recommendations for the online gaming industry on assessing impact on children
Online gaming and children’s rights
Highlights
These recommendations are designed to guide and support online gaming companies through a process of incorporating child rights considerations throughout their business activities.
The Recommendations for the Online Gaming Industry on Assessing Impact on Children – compiled with extensive inputs from the industry – highlight some of the key child rights considerations for online gaming companies of all kinds, from game developers, publishers, distributors, platforms, esports companies and streaming services. They build on a UNICEF Discussion Paper on Online Gaming and Child Rights published in 2019 and extensive engagement with the online gaming community.
The recommendations highlight issues around healthy game time, ensuring inclusion and representation, avoiding toxic environments, considerations around age-limits and verification, combatting grooming and sexual abuse, and managing commercial influence.
These recommendations aim to guide the online gaming industry on embedding child rights within internal processes with a goal of providing the best possible experience for all children looking to enjoy gaming online.
