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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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Business - Private Sector
Special Procedures
Corporate human rights due diligence
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises 2018 | Report presented to the 73rd session of the UNGA in 2018 on business and government action to advance the implementation of corporate human rights due diligence as set out in the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, noting that new technology offers the promise of innovative solutions for improving the way human rights impacts are tracked down the supply chain; that significant innovations involve technology to enable workers? voices to be heard, which can enhance both due diligence and remediation approaches, including in supply chains; that Collaborative initiatives are also being explored in several sectors to use blockchain technology to monitor impacts at all nodes in the supply chain; but that at the same time, when using technology, due consideration needs to be given to the risks of undermining good practice
2018
Security � Counter-Terrorism
Special Rapporteurs
Online violence and violence facilitated by information and communications technology
Report presented to the 38th session of the HRC in 2018 on online violence and violence facilitated by information and communications technology (ICT) against women and girls from a human rights perspective
2018
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
South-South cooperation, including with respect to cooperation on technology and science
Special Rapporteur on the right to development - 2018 - Report presented to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in 2018 on South-South cooperation, including with respect to cooperation on technology and science
2018
Artificial Intelligence
General Assembly
Implications of artificial intelligence technologies for human rights
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
Privacy, surveillance, data; Discrimination and equality, SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Effective access to justice for migrants
Report presented to the 73rd session of the UNGA in 2018 on effective access to justice for migrants, stressing, among other things, the need to foster the establishment of firewall protections to safeguard the right to access justice for migrants without the fear of being deported
2018
SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of predictive analytics on pre-trial decisions in the American criminal justice system
Report presented to the 38th session of the HRC in 2018 on the Special Rapporteur's country visit to the United States of America from 1 to 15 December 2017 in which the Special Rapporteur addressed, among other things, human rights implications of so called coordinated entry systems on homeless persons, as well as the impact of predictive analytics on pre-trial decisions in the American criminal justice system
2018
Civic space and content governance
Special Rapporteurs
Global trends with regard to the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Report presented to 38th session of the HRC in 2018 on global trends with regard to the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, including on obstructions encountered in the digital space
2018