The World Childhood Foundation USA and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN hosted the conference 'Children & the Digital World: Threats and Opportunities'. During the day a new online child safety report was launched, which had been produced by the International Telecommunication Union and UNESCO's Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development.

The report summarises available materials about risks to children on the internet, and submits proposals for how their online safety can be promoted.

The Queen was one of three keynote speakers at the conference. In her speech, The Queen said:

"Twenty years ago, Childhood was founded. My hope then was that I could close the foundation after a few years. However, the sexual abuse and exploitation of children remains a major universal problem and Childhood continues to pioneer solutions addressing it."

Read the full speech here .