This monitoring and analysis aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the extent to which the media fulfils its responsibility to promote and protect children’s rights. These rights include, among others, the right to freedom of expression and the right to privacy, particularly in contexts where children are implicated in incidents of misconduct or are reported on as victims of abuse. At the same time, the media has the responsibility to let children speak for themselves when it is in the child's best interest to do so.

This report further seeks to identify areas where the media must strengthen its practices and assume greater responsibility and accountability to promote higher reporting standards on children, both in the quantity and quality of coverage. In doing so, it aims to foster responsible journalism that protects children’s dignity and safeguards their rights.