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Web Summit - Human Rights in the Digital Era

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02 Dec 2020

Opening statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Lisbon, 2-4 December I am pleased to participate in this Web Summit and highlight the importance of human rights in the digital...

Berkeley Protocol gives guidance on using public digital info to fight for human rights

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01 Dec 2020

The first international protocol on using social media as evidence of human rights violations, launches today. The Berkeley Protocol – a joint publication of the UN Human Rights Office and UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Centre -- offers global guidance on using public digital information.

Intrusive, omnipresent surveillance growing during COVID-19 pandemic, UN expert warns

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29 Oct 2020

New York (29 October 2020) – Widespread use of contact tracing technology to fight the COVID-19 pandemic has led to almost incessant and omnipresent surveillance in some parts of the world, a UN...

Effects of artificial intelligence, including profiling,automated decision-making and machine-learningtechnologies, on the enjoyment of the right to privacy - Note by the Secretariat

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23 Sep 2020

Digital rights in the COVID-19 era

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29 Jul 2020

PDF format 29 July 2020 Around the world, cities have stepped up in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing changes to our daily lives. Developing better resilience against future threats...

A/75/147: Preliminary evaluation of the privacy dimensions of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: report

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27 Jul 2020

The Special Rapporteur examines two particular aspects of the impact of COVID-19 on the right to privacy: data protection and surveillance.

UN expert joins call for immediate moratorium on sale, transfer and use of surveillance tech

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15 Jul 2020

Los Angeles (15 July 2020) With the publication of her latest report on emerging digital technologies and racial discrimination, UN Special Rapporteur Tendayi Achiume joins the call for an immediate...

Panel discussion on the impacts, opportunities and challenges of new and emerging digital technologies with regard to the promotion and protection of human rights

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08 Jul 2020

Human Rights Council 44th Session Statement by Nada Al- Nashif UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights 8 July 2020 Madame President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Colleagues and friends...

A/HRC/44/50/Add.4: Observations on communications transmitted to Governments and replies received - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

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02 Jul 2020

Cambodia’s state of emergency law endangers human rights, warns UN expert

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17 Apr 2020

Arabic | Chinese version | Khmer version | Spanish GENEVA (17 April 2020) – The Cambodian Government's new state of emergency law in response to the COVID-19 pandemic risks violating the right to...