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Welcome to the United Nations Hub for Human Rights and Digital Technology. As our world becomes ever-more digital, there is a greater need for our rights to be respected both online and offline. The UN has been considering how our valuable human rights protections apply in the digital space. You can find the full scope of key texts, including standards, analysis, and recommendations emerging from the United Nations human rights mechanisms, on this site.
"Together, as we seek to recover from the pandemic, we must learn to better curtail harmful use of digital technology and to better unleash its power as a democratizing force and an enabler."
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL
ANTÓNIO GUTERRES
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SDGs and digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Digital interventions and tele-health
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Tlaleng Mofokeng
2021
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance
Special Rapporteurs
Privacy and COVID19
Report by the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joseph A. Cannataci, on the impact of measures to combat COVID-19 on data protection, technology and surveillance
2021
Artificial Intelligence; Privacy, Data, and Surveillance; Discrimination and Equality
Human Rights Council
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) on the enjoyment of the right to privacy and associated rights
Report the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights presented to the 48th session of the Human Rights Council
2021
Civic Space and Content Governance; SDGs and Digital Divide
Special Rapporteurs
Safe digital space for women's equal enjoyment of freedom of opinion and expression
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan
2021
SDGs and Digital Divide
Special Rapporteurs
COVID-19, culture and cultural rights, including digital cultural life and the issue of digital divide
Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, presented to the 46th session of the Human Rights Council
2021
Civic Space and Content Governance
Special Rapporteurs
Report on disinformation
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan
2021
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance; Security - Counter-Terrorism;
Business - Private Sector
Working Group
Military and security products and services in cyberspace and their human rights impacts
Report of the Working group on the human rights impacts of mercenaries, mercenary-related actors and private military and security companies engaging in cyberactivities
2021
Discrimination and Equality
Special Rapporteurs
Racial and Xenophobic discrimination and the use of digital technologies in border and immigration enforcement
Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, presented to the 48th session of the Human Rights Council
2021
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance; Artificial Intelligence; Discrimination and equality;
Business - Private Sector
Special Rapporteurs
Report on the Freedom of Thought
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed
2021