Invited by Center for Child Protection, Pontifical Gregorian University and WePROTECT Global Alliance, 140 experts, scholars, commercial organizations, NGOs and government officials got together in Rome to attend the World Congress on Child Dignity in the Digital World from Oct. 3rd to 6th 2017. Representatives of UNICEF and relevant institutes, delegates of European Council, Secretary of General Cardinal of Vatican, Senate Speaker and Minister of Education of Italy, Head of the National Cybersecurity Center of UK, Permanent State Secretary of Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, ambassadors of various countries to Vatican, and representatives from Facebook as well as Microsoft participated the conference.
The Delegation at Rome
Led by Christopher Chuang, a delegation consists of ABF and SDC numbers attended the conference, including Simon Jones, Teresa Chuang, Alice Wang, Richard Weng, and Kathy Tse.
In Chairman Chuang’s speech, he pointed that children were not “they” but parts of our lives. If we could discuss with the children on how to deal with the cyber world correctly, we would gain a lot of feedbacks and inspirations. And we should bring our feelings back home, continue paying attention to this subject and expand this strength.
Declaration of Rome, was issued at the end of the conference, calling on government officials, international organizations, academic, medical as well as health institutes, NGOs and groups to gather together and commit ourselves to realizing the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals on Children’s rights.
The Delegation Received by Pope Francis
During the conference, Journalist He Yongjun from People’s Daily interviewed Chairman Chuang and the delegation. Chairman Chuang said that Chinese government had made a lot of effort on protecting children’s rights. However, many international representatives didn’t know what we had done. He hoped that government could conduct more interaction with the international society.