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Neurotechnology and Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/58/6View 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 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2022–2025
YearSymbolTitleWord lengthText similarity
2025
A/HRC/RES/58/6

Neurotechnology and human rights

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2022
A/HRC/RES/51/3

Neurotechnology and human rights

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects
GuidelinesHuman RightsNervous SystemTechnology

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the impact, opportunities and challenges of neurotechnology with regard to the promotion and protection of all human rights, presented to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-seventh session;6

6A/HRC/57/61.

2
Requests the Advisory Committee to draft a set of recommended guidelines for applying the existing human rights framework to the conception, design, development, testing, use and deployment of neurotechnologies and to present it to the Council at its sixty-fourth session;
3
Also requests the Advisory Committee, when drafting the above-mentioned recommended guidelines, to seek the views and inputs of all stakeholders and to take them into account, as well as the relevant work that has already been done, including by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
4
Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the treaty bodies and the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, within their respective mandates, to give due consideration to the impact of neurotechnology on the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
5
Decides to remain seized of this matter.

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