RIYADH — Dr. Awwad Al-Awwad, president of the Human Rights Commission (HRC), emphasized the importance of Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman’s initiative to protect children in the cyber world, saying that this will safeguard children from the dangers of this space in light of the growth of electronic applications and programs. He made these remarks while addressing a webinar on “Protecting the rights of the child in the virtual world,” organized by the commission on Monday. Dr. Al-Awwad said that the Kingdom has approved many regulations for child protection and that is in accordance with international regulations and obligations as well as its pursuit of drawing up new mechanisms to confront violations of rights of the child and ways of reporting them. These regulations include the Child Protection Law; the Cybercrime Law, the Anti-Harassment Law, the Law for Protection from Abuse, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Law, and other regulations and decisions issued during the past years to complement each other, he said while noting that they form, in their entirety, a framework that protects children and provides a stable and safe life. Delegates of a number of government agencies, civil society institutions, and agencies concerned with childhood attended the webinar. Its first session dealt with topics such as the role of civil society institutions in protecting the rights of the child in the virtual world, its governance, the proposed policy to support the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, local and international experiences in the governance of the virtual world. The second session discussed the security risks to the child in the virtual world, cyber bullying, and the role of the Anti-Cybercrime Law in protecting the child. The participants of the webinar also focused on what has been achieved at the national level in the framework of realizing the rights of the child in the virtual world. They also presented various measures to protect it.