{"id":124863,"date":"2026-10-31T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/?p=124863"},"modified":"2026-10-31T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:39:13","slug":"lusophone-supreme-courts-discuss-child-protection-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/blog\/lusophone-supreme-courts-discuss-child-protection-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Lusophone supreme courts discuss child protection online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"cea-blog-resumen\">\n<p><strong>In brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 28 October 2026 Maputo hosted the XIV Conference of the Forum of Presidents of the Supreme Courts of Portuguese-speaking Countries and Territories.<\/li>\n<li>The president of Brazil&#039;s STJ, Luis Felipe Salom\u00e3o, presented the Estatuto Digital da Crian\u00e7a e do Adolescente and called for international judicial cooperation.<\/li>\n<li>CEA Digital Law sees lusophone judicial cooperation as a bridge between Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>On 28 October 2026 in Maputo, Mozambique, the presidents of the supreme courts of Portuguese-speaking countries and territories addressed violence against and trafficking of children, including a strand on the digital environment. As reported by Brazil&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stj.jus.br\/sites\/portalp\/Paginas\/Comunicacao\/Noticias\/2026\/28102026-STJ-debate-protecao-a-infancia-com-supremos-tribunais-de-paises-de-lingua-portuguesa.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Superior Tribunal de Justi\u00e7a (STJ)<\/a>, it matters because protecting children online can no longer be handled within a single jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<h2>What was discussed in Maputo<\/h2>\n<p>The event was the XIV Confer\u00eancia do F\u00f3rum dos Presidentes dos Supremos Tribunais de Justi\u00e7a dos Pa\u00edses e Territ\u00f3rios de L\u00edngua Portuguesa, hosted by the Tribunal Supremo de Mo\u00e7ambique under the theme \u00abPromo\u00e7\u00e3o e Prote\u00e7\u00e3o Integral dos Direitos da Crian\u00e7a: Um Compromisso do Sistema Judicial\u00bb. It aimed to strengthen institutional cooperation and find faster, more effective ways to investigate crimes against children and protect victims.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Tribunal Supremo de Mo\u00e7ambique and of the forum, Adelino Manuel Muchanga, argued that children must be recognised as active holders of rights. He identified child-friendly hearings, training for judges and international cooperation as key. The president of Portugal&#8217;s Supremo Tribunal de Justi\u00e7a, Jo\u00e3o Cura Mariano, also took part.<\/p>\n<h2>The Brazilian experience<\/h2>\n<p>The STJ president, Justice Luis Felipe Salom\u00e3o, explained the changes in Brazil&#8217;s legal framework. He stressed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planalto.gov.br\/ccivil_03\/_ato2023-2026\/2025\/lei\/l15211.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Estatuto Digital da Crian\u00e7a e do Adolescente<\/a> requires preventive measures from the design stage of services, with reliable age verification, parental supervision and duties to respond to rights violations. He also cited court decisions on reporting channels, the protection of girls and parental supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Salom\u00e3o said Brazil&#8217;s experience could help other countries, with due regard for their particular circumstances. He added that one dimension of the problem cannot be tackled by any jurisdiction alone, given platforms&#8217; cross-border operations and the speed at which content circulates.<\/p>\n<h2>Our view at CEA Digital Law<\/h2>\n<p>At the Euro-American Committee of Digital Law &#8211; CEA Digital Law, we welcome the fact that supreme courts are putting this issue on a common agenda. Judges apply these rules to real cases, and their dialogue can generate shared criteria ahead of legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The comparison with Europe is instructive. Regulation (EU) 2022\/2065 (the Digital Services Act) also places child-protection duties on platforms, but through risk management and administrative oversight. The Brazilian model, as Salom\u00e3o describes it, emphasises preventive design and age verification. Both rest on the idea that responsibility begins with how a service is built.<\/p>\n<p>We suggest three lines of work for Latin America and the Caribbean and for lusophone Africa:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exchange case law and good practice on reporting channels and parental supervision, with translation and open access.<\/li>\n<li>Create swift channels of judicial cooperation to request information from platforms operating across several territories.<\/li>\n<li>Balance age verification against data protection and children&#8217;s privacy, an open question that deserves common criteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It remains to be seen how this commitment will become concrete instruments. We stand ready to contribute comparative analysis across Europe, Latin America and Africa.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"cea-blog-fuentes\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stj.jus.br\/sites\/portalp\/Paginas\/Comunicacao\/Noticias\/2026\/28102026-STJ-debate-protecao-a-infancia-com-supremos-tribunais-de-paises-de-lingua-portuguesa.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Superior Tribunal de Justi\u00e7a (STJ) \u2014 STJ debate prote\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 inf\u00e2ncia com supremos tribunais de pa\u00edses de l\u00edngua portuguesa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planalto.gov.br\/ccivil_03\/_ato2023-2026\/2025\/lei\/l15211.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lei n\u00ba 15.211\/2025 \u2014 Estatuto Digital da Crian\u00e7a e do Adolescente (Planalto)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"cea-blog-firma\"><em>CEA Digital Law<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Maputo, Portuguese-speaking supreme courts discussed child protection, and Brazil presented its Estatuto Digital da Crian\u00e7a e do Adolescente.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_cea_women":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[],"cea_women":[],"class_list":["post-124863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-rights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124893,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124863\/revisions\/124893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124863"},{"taxonomy":"cea_women","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cea_women?post=124863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}