This report presents the first results of the mandate’s ongoing work on Privacy and Gender. The Special Rapporteur concludes that gender-based breaches of privacy are a systemic form of denial of human rights; discriminatory in nature and frequently perpetuating unequal social, economic, cultural and political structures.

GENEVA (13 December 2018) - UN human rights experts* have expressed concerns at reports that several human rights defenders have been harassed, arbitrarily detained and questioned for several hours by...

GENEVA (12 December 2018) - UN human rights experts have raised concerns about the European Union’s Proposal for a Regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online , calling on...

Spanish GENEVA (28 November 2018) — UN human rights experts have welcomed a ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court that the new Internal Security Law was unconstitutional, in its entirety. They have called...

Spanish GENEVA (22 November 2018) – UN human rights experts* are urging the Government of Nicaragua to immediately put an end to the repression and reprisals against those who speak out against the...

GENEVA (9 November 2018) - Germany has excellent foundations on which to build its national system for privacy protection, but some recent developments are not optimal and may leave serious gaps...

NEW YORK (26 October 2018) - A UN human rights expert has urged the state and private sectors to review and discontinue some of the ways they currently share information stored on computer networks –...

In his report, prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 28/16, the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy focuses on the work undertaken in the first three years of his mandate, with a...

GENEVA (18 October 2018) – The Australian Government should drop its "fatally flawed" proposed legislation that forces tech companies to help spy on citizens in various ways, including granting access...

This report is divided into two parts: an executive summary of activities undertaken during 2017-18 is the first, introductory part of the report. The second and main part is the final report on the...