Sustainable Development Goals and Digital Divide
Sustainable Development Goals
and Digital Divide
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; SDGs - Digital divide
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
General Comment on Equality and Non-Discrimination
General Comment No. 6
2018
Discrimination and equality; SDGs - Digital divide
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
General Comment on Living Independently and being Included in the Community
General Comment No. 5
2017
SDGs - Digital divide
General Assembly
Information and communications technologies for development
General Assembly, resolution 69/204, Information and communications technologies for development
2015
Discrimination and equality; SDGs - Digital divide
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
General Comment on the Participation of Persons with Disabilities
General Comment No. 7
2018
Business - Private Sector; Civic space and content gobvernance; SDGs - Digital divide
Special Procedures
Copyright law and policy from the perspective of the right to science and culture
Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights - 2015 - Report presented to the 28th session of the HRC in 2015 on copyright law and policy from the perspective of the right to science and culture, emphasizing both the need for protection of authorship and expanding opportunities for participation in cultural life
2015
SDGs - Digital divide; discrimination and equality;
Human Rights Council
Extreme poverty and human rights
Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
2019
Discrimination and equality; SDGs - Digital divide
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
General Comment on the Right to Inclusive Education
General Comment No. 4
2016
Civic space and content governance; SDGs - Digital divide
Special Procedures
Right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress
Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights - 2012 -Report presented to the 20th session of the HRC in 2012 on the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications
2012
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
South-South cooperation, including with respect to cooperation on technology and science
Special Rapporteur on the right to development - 2018 - Report presented to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in 2018 on South-South cooperation, including with respect to cooperation on technology and science
2018