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Welcome to the United Nations Hub for Human Rights and Digital Technology. As our world becomes ever-more digital, there is a greater need for our rights to be respected both online and offline. The UN has been considering how our valuable human rights protections apply in the digital space. You can find the full scope of key texts, including standards, analysis, and recommendations emerging from the United Nations human rights mechanisms, on this site.
"Together, as we seek to recover from the pandemic, we must learn to better curtail harmful use of digital technology and to better unleash its power as a democratizing force and an enabler."
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL
ANTÓNIO GUTERRES
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Discrimination and Equality
Special Rapporteurs
Racial and Xenophobic discrimination and the use of digital technologies in border and immigration enforcement
Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, presented to the 48th session of Human Rights Council
2021
Privacy, Data, and Surveillance; Security - Counter-Terrorism
Working Group
Military and security products and services in cyberspace and their human rights impacts
Report of the Working group on the human rights impacts of mercenaries, mercenary-related actors and private military and security companies engaging in cyberactivities
2021
SDGs and Digital Divide; Civic Space and Content Governance
Special Rapporteurs
Disinformation and the right to science
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, Marcos Orellana, presented to the 48th session of the Human Rights Council
2021
Artificial Intelligence; Privacy, Data, and Surveillance; Discrimination and Equality
Human Rights Council
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) on the enjoyment of the right to privacy and associated rights
Report the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights presented to the 48th session of Human Rights Council
2021