During the CRC Committee's Day of General Discussion on Digital Media and Children's Rights, ISS advocated particularly for the rights of children in adoption matters and searching for their origins as outlined in their written submission. ISS recommended that the CRC Committee and its partners identify promising practices that: 1. Equip children to use social media to better implement their rights and be protected from the associated risks (e.g.: development of guidelines, fact sheets and awareness raising), 2. Promote training on maintaining a professional social media presence and 3. Identify effective sanctions for breaches of children's rights associated to digital media use.

Additionally on 17 September ISS co-sponsored with a number of Missions and other stakeholders including among others UNICEF and ATD Fourth World a side event on "Prevention of Family Breakdown due to Poverty" to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children and the 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at the HRC. This was an excellent opportunity to promote promising practices and remind States of their obligations to strengthen and promote families (See summary note prepared by ATD Fourth World).

For more information : Summary Conference Preventing Family Separation