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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
Special Rapporteurs
Information and communications technologies role in lifelong learning
Special Rapporteur on the right to education - 2016 - Report presented to the 71st session of the UNGA in 2016 on lifelong learning and the right to education, discussing, among other things, information and communications technologies role in lifelong learning
2016
Privacy, surveillance, data; Civic space and content governance; Business and private sector
Human Rights Council
Freedom of expression, State regulation, and the private sector in the digital age
Report presented to 32nd session of the HRC in 2016 on the freedom of expression, State regulation, and the private sector in the digital age addressing, among other things, content regulation, internet shutdowns, net neutrality, and surveillance as well as digital security, along with submissions by States and civil society on the topic. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomOpinion/Pages/Privatesectorinthedigitalage.aspx
2016
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Promote right to health through information dissemination, data gathering
Report presented to 32nd session of the HRC in 2016 on the right of adolescents to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, which explains, among other things, that the use of new communications technologies may help adolescents to build and utilize networks to promote their right to health through information dissemination, data gathering, health campaign design, health education, peer-to-peer education and counselling and conflict mediation and stresses that the right to protection extends to violence in the digital environment and that States must take measures to combat cyberbullying
2016
Privacy, surveillance, data
General Assembly
Contemporary challenges to freedom of expression
Report presented to the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in 2016 on the contemporary challenges to freedom of expression addressing, among other things, mass and targeted surveillance and internet shutdowns (
2016