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; Civic space and content governance
Special Rapporteurs
Promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Report presented to 35th session of the HRC in 2017 on the role of digital access providers, in particular on the roles played by private Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression (continued) actors engaged in the provision of Internet and telecommunications access, and concluding with a set of principles that could guide the private sector?s steps to respect human rights along with a supplementary annex providing materials accompanying the report (A/HRC/35/22/Add.4). http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/35/22/Add.4
2017
SDGs - Digital divide; Discrimination and equality;
Special Rapporteurs
Persons with disabilities and assistive devices and technologies
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities - 2016 - Report presented to the 71st session of the UNGA in 2016 on how to establish disability-inclusive policies that are in conformity with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and which can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, discussing, among other things, assistive devices and technologies
2016
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Promote right to health through information dissemination, data gathering
Report presented to 32nd session of the HRC in 2016 on the right of adolescents to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, which explains, among other things, that the use of new communications technologies may help adolescents to build and utilize networks to promote their right to health through information dissemination, data gathering, health campaign design, health education, peer-to-peer education and counselling and conflict mediation and stresses that the right to protection extends to violence in the digital environment and that States must take measures to combat cyberbullying
2016
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Right to education in the digital age
Special Rapporteur on the right to education -2016 - Report presented to 32nd session of the HRC in 2016 issues and challenges to the right to education in the digital age with a focus on higher education, considering, among other things, how the 4 norms and principles that underlie the right to education should be upheld while embracing digital technologies
2016
SDGs - Digital divide
Special Rapporteurs
Information and communications technologies role in lifelong learning
Special Rapporteur on the right to education - 2016 - Report presented to the 71st session of the UNGA in 2016 on lifelong learning and the right to education, discussing, among other things, information and communications technologies role in lifelong learning
2016