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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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Privacy, Data and Surveillance; Discrimination and Equality; SDGs and Digital Divide
Human Rights Council
Statistics and data collection under Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Report presented to the 49th session of the Human Rights Council providing an overview of State obligations under article 31 of Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to collect and maintain data for the purpose of developing evidence-based policies aimed at realizing the rights set out in the Convention.
2021
SDGs and Digital Divide; Civic Space and Content Governance
Special Rapporteurs
Disinformation and the right to science
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, Marcos Orellana, presented to the 48th session of the Human Rights Council
2021
Security - Counter-Terrorism
Special Rapporteurs
Cybertorture
Report presented to the 43rd session of the HRC in 2020 on psychological torture, encouraging the interpretation of the prohibition of torture in line with contemporary possibilities and challenges arising from emerging technologies and exploring, in a preliminary manner, the possibility and basic contours of what could be described as ?cybertorture?
2020