New and Emerging Digital Technologies and Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/41/11View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2019.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2019–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/59/11

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/HRC/RES/59/11	New and emerging digital technologies and human rights	2,759	43%Compare
2023	A/HRC/RES/53/29	New and emerging digital technologies and human rights	2,921	38%Compare
2021	A/HRC/RES/47/23	New and emerging digital technologies and human rights	1,562	28%Compare
2019	A/HRC/RES/41/11	New and emerging digital technologies and human rights	818	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Conferences Digital Technology Human Rights New Technologies Report Preparation

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Requests the Advisory Committee to prepare a report, from within existing resources, on the possible impacts, opportunities and challenges of new and emerging digital technologies with regard to the promotion and protection of human rights, including mapping of relevant existing initiatives by the United Nations and recommendations on how human rights opportunities, challenges and gaps arising from new and emerging digital technologies could be addressed by the Human Rights Council and its special procedures and subsidiary bodies in a holistic, inclusive and pragmatic manner, and to present the report to the Council at its forty-seventh session;

Also requests the Advisory Committee, when preparing the above-mentioned report, to seek input from and to take into account the relevant work already done by stakeholders, including Member States, international and regional organizations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies, other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, the Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, national human rights institutions, civil society, the private sector, the technical community and academic institutions;

Decides to convene a panel discussion at its forty-fourth session on the impacts, opportunities and challenges of new and emerging digital technologies with regard to the promotion and protection of human rights, also decides that the discussions will be fully accessible to persons with disabilities, and requests the Advisory Committee to present an oral update on its preparation of the above-mentioned report during the panel discussion;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize the above-mentioned panel discussion and to liaise with relevant stakeholders, including Member States, international and regional organizations, the Advisory Committee, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the human rights treaty bodies, other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, national human rights institutions, civil society, the private sector, the technical community and academic institutions, with a view to ensuring multi-stakeholder participation in the panel discussion;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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