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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 - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Persons with disabilities and assistive devices and technologies
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities - 2017 - Report presented to the 34th session of the HRC in 2017 on the provision of different forms of rights-based support and assistance for persons with disabilities, which includes assistive devices and technologies
2017
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 Kaye
2017
Civic space and content governance
Special Rapporteurs
Online civic space
Report presented to 35th session of the HRC in 2017 on the successes and achievements of civil society in recent years, including how civil society has leveraged digital technology to organize, deliberate and innovate, while noting that technology is a double-edged sword as it raises privacy, censorship, and surveillance concerns, among others
2017