Topic: 2025 – Protecting and Empowering Youth in Digital Spaces
Country: Iran
Delegate Name: Ella Rose
With the expansion of technology and digital spaces transforming the way we all communicate, get educated, and interact with people from all over the world is drastically changing. Although digital spaces can give many opportunities to our youth, the contradictory part of it is even worse. Digital spaces create places for our youth to get cyberbullied, get fed misinformation, have privacy violations, and even get exposed to harmful content. This is why the delegation of Iran wants to focus more on the protective aspect of this committee
The delegation of Iran wants to emphasize that this committee needs to remember that digital safety and empowering the youth also need to respect the religious aspect of each country, and each country’s sovereignty over its own cyberspace. Iran would like to propose a solution focusing on respect for national sovereignty and cultural independence. This can be done by allowing countries to make up their own rules for how their digital spaces work, but also having certain guidelines that they have to follow to ensure that the youth is truly protected.
Another thing that Iran would like to propose is something that we as a country already do, which is censoring certain things online to make sure that the youth is truly getting the right information and not fed false news. This can be done by monitoring the internet and only allowing certain sources of information in each country. This will be used as a safeguard for the youth to make sure our youth is safe online and can live a good childhood without having to worry about getting misinformed about the world.
So, in conclusion, we as the delegation of Iran want to emphasize how putting in safeguards and censoring misinformation can be very helpful in protecting our youth. But we, as a committee, should also note that this should be up to each individual country on what they can censor and what they don’t want to, so we can protect national sovereignty.
