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 and Digital Divide
Human Rights Council
Promotion, protection and implementation of the right to participate in public affairs in the context of the existing human rights law: best practices, experiences, challenges and ways to overcome them
Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights presented t othe 30th session of the HRC
2015
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;
Special Rapporteurs
Impact of technology on older people
Report presented to the 30th session of the HRC in 2015 on the right to autonomy and care of older persons, discussing, among other things, the importance of new technologies to their education, training and lifelong learning; noting the importance of continued education and access to new technologies, as well as vocational rehabilitation and recommendation that distance learning and digital training should be offered to older persons in order to bridge the gap among generations and avoid dependency on others as a result of to the lack of knowledge of information and communications technology
2015
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