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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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, 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
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
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