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
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
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of new technologies on the human rights of persons living in poverty
Report presented to the 41st session of the HRC in 2019 on the Special Rapporteur's country visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 5 to 16 November 2018 during which the Special Rapporteur examined, among other things, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the use of :big data, artificial intelligence, algorithms and automated decision-making processes) on the human rights of those living in poverty, especially in terms of the functioning of the welfare system. End of mission statement: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Poverty/EOM_GB_16Nov2018.pdf
2019
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
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Communication technologies and cultural awareness training for health-care workers
Report presented to the 74th session of the UNGA in 2019 on the education of healthcare workers, referring to, among other things, technologies and to communication technologies in particular as supplies (along with essential medicines, vaccines and medical products) needed by healthcare workers to function adequately and stressing that ?[e]ssential health interventions and technologies should not be limited to biomedical products and should include effective psychosocial and population-based public health interventions? and further noting that the ?[t]he implementation of important communication technologies and cultural awareness training for health-care workers, including doctors, have been found to be effective in promoting access to health care in persons with disabilities?
2019
Privacy, surveillance, data; Discrimination and equality, SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Effective access to justice for migrants
Report presented to the 73rd session of the UNGA in 2018 on effective access to justice for migrants, stressing, among other things, the need to foster the establishment of firewall protections to safeguard the right to access justice for migrants without the fear of being deported
2018
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Digital technology and the right to a healthy environment
Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment - 2019 - Report presented to the 40th session of the HRC in 2019 on the right to a healthy environment and air pollution, referring to, among other things, new technologies that offer the possibility of leapfrogging expensive air quality monitoring stations and other clean technologies
2019
SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Refugees and the right to education
Special Rapporteur on the right to education 2018 - Report presented to the 73rd session of the UNGA in 2018 on situation of refugees with regard to the right to education, in particular in the context of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, discussing, among other things, the role of information and communications technology in providing innovative solutions, such as e-Learning, to address come challenges in this context
2018
SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of predictive analytics on pre-trial decisions in the American criminal justice system
Report presented to the 38th session of the HRC in 2018 on the Special Rapporteur's country visit to the United States of America from 1 to 15 December 2017 in which the Special Rapporteur addressed, among other things, human rights implications of so called coordinated entry systems on homeless persons, as well as the impact of predictive analytics on pre-trial decisions in the American criminal justice system
2018