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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SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of digital technology on older people
Report presented to the 42nd session of the HRC in 2019 on the human rights of older persons in emergency situations, addressing, among other things, the impact of digital technologies, such as digital information and communications technology, satellite data and computer processing of digital information, and biometric identification, to provide emergency support and management during emergency situations
2019
Discrimination and equality
Special Rapporteurs
Right of children to access to information about their origins
Report presented to the 74th session of the UNGA in 2019 on safeguards for the protection of the rights of children born from surrogacy arrangements, addressing, among other things, the right of children to access to information about their origins in the context of assisted reproductive technologies, which can be particularly important for their right to health
2019
SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Technologies and older persons with disabilities
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities - 2019 - Report presented to the 74th session of the UNGA in 2019 on the situation of older persons with disabilities, discussing, among other things, assistive devices and technologies and e-governance as well as e-services through information communications technology in this context
2019
SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of new technologies on the human rights of persons living in poverty
Report presented to the 74th session of the UNGA in 2019 on digital technology, social protection and human rights examining the impact of new technologies on the human rights of persons living in poverty, discussing, among other things, that systems of social protection and assistance are increasingly driven by digital data and technologies that are used to automate, predict, identify, surveil, detect, target and punish and how welfare budgets could be transformed through technology to ensure a higher standard of living for the vulnerable and disadvantaged, and providing several recommendations in this regard
2019
Privacy, surveillance, data; Discrimination and equality
Special Rapporteurs
Privacy in the context of security and surveillance, from a gender perspective
Report presented to the 40th session of the HRC in 2019 on privacy in the context of security and surveillance, from a gender perspective, and in relation to health data. In addition, the Taskforce on Health Data identified a range of issues, such as 'Smart' implanted health devices devices/prostheses that transmit ongoing real life data back to companies and others, which positions the 'body as data' and subject to use in legal proceedings, and artificial intelligence/machine learning and automatic processing, that will be explored in consultations during 2019
2019
Privacy, surveillance, data; Discrimination and equality, SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of migration on migrant women and girls
Report presented to 41st session of the HRC in 2019 on the impact of migration on migrant women and girls from a gender perspective in which the Special Rapporteur discusses, among other things, the need for information firewalls between the immigration authorities and public services so that migrant women and girls can exercise their human rights without the fear of being deported
2019
Business - Private Sector; Discrimination and equality;
Special Procedures
Use of new technologies by business enterprise and the impacts on women?s human rights
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises 2019 | Report presented to the 41st session of the HRC in 2019 on integrating a gender perspective in implementing the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which provide, under Principle 13, that business enterprises should ensure that new technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation do not have disproportionate adverse impacts on women's human rights
2019