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Welcome to the United Nations Hub for Human Rights and Digital Technology. As our world becomes ever-more digital, so does the need for our rights 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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Civic space and content governance
Human Rights Council
Freedom of opinion and expression
Resolution 12/16, Freedom of opinion and expression,
2009
Civic space and content governance ; Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kay, Report presented to the 41st session of the HRC in 2019 on the private surveillance technologies and human rights, especially the right to freedom of opinion and expression
2019
Civic space and content governance
Special Rapporteurs
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kay, Report presented to the 38th session of the HRC in 2018 on the regulation of user-generated online content, along with a supplementary annex providing an overview of submissions received in preparation of the report (A/HRC/38/35/Add.1).
2018
Civic space and content governance
Special Rapporteurs
Importance of new communication technologies in facilitating and organizing peaceful assemblies
Report presented to 23th session of the HRC in 2013 on the funding of associations and the ability to hold peaceful assemblies, including the importance of new communication technologies in facilitating and organizing peaceful assemblies
2013
Civic space and content governance ; Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kay, Report presented to the 38th session of the HRC in 2018 in follow up to the Rapporteur�s prior report to the HRC in 2015 (A/HRC/29/32) on the use of encryption and anonymity to exercise the rights to freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age, examining new trends and issues since the initial report
2015
Civic space and content governance ; Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kay
2017
Civic space and content governance
Human Rights Council
Panel on freedom of expression on the internet
Decision 18/119, Panel on freedom of expression on the internet,
2011
Civic space and content governance ; Artificial Intelligence
Special Rapporteurs
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Report presented to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in 2018 on the implications of artificial intelligence technologies for human rights in the information environment, focusing in particular on rights to freedom of opinion and expression, privacy and non-discrimination
2018
Civic space and content governance ; Privacy, surveillance, data
Special Rapporteurs
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue
2013