Discrimination and Equality
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Discrimination and Equality
What are the State and private sector responsibilities in ensuring that no groups are left behind in their right to enjoy human rights online and through digital technologies? How should States and companies ensure that digital technologies do not have a discriminatory impact on particular groups? How should States ensure that digital technologies do not aggravate existing inequalities? What are some of the measures that should be put in place to eliminate existing digital divides, based on age, gender, disabilities, socio-economic status, and place of residence?
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Discrimination and Equality
Special Rapporteurs
Development and use of emerging technologies in ways that are uniquely experimental, dangerous and disriminatory in the border and immigration enfocement context.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, presented at the 75th session of General Assembly
2020
Discrimination and Equality
Special Rapporteurs
Intersection between the coronavirus pandemic and the pandemic of gender-based violence against women, with a focus on domestic violence and the "peace at home" initiative
Report of the SR on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Simonovic
2020
SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Secretary-General
Role of new technologies for the realization of economic, social and cultural rights
Question of the realization of economic, social and cultural rights in all countries: the role of new technologies for the realization of economic, social and cultural rights
2020
SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Digitalization of education
Special Rapporteur on the right to education - 2020 - Report presented to the 44th session of the HRC in 2020 on the impact of the coronavirus disease crisis on the right to education, focusing also on the digitalization of education and recommending that: Governments should consider the massive arrival of private actors through digital technology as a major danger for education systems and the right to education in the long term. They should ensure, including through the adoption of appropriate regulation, that the increased role of the private sector will not lead to the capture of limited public resources for education by commercial entities seeking to profit from the crisis, the collection of learners and teachers data or advertising directed at children and youth. Education and learning solutions should be developed as a public good, without commercial or other restrictive licenses that threaten the enjoyment of the right to education and deepen inequalities.
2020
Civic space and content governance ; Discrimination and equality; SDGs - Digital divide
Special Procedures
Women's human rights in the changing world of work
Working Group on discrimination against women and girls - 2020 -Report presented to 44th session of the HRC in 2020 on women's human rights in the changing world of work, focusing on technological change and recommending that States strengthen regulatory frameworks for technology providers to ensure they prevent and eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls online.
2020