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  1. Digital space and human rights

    About. Digital technologies provide new means to advocate for, defend, and exercise human rights and affect all types of rights - civil and political, as well as cultural, economic and social rights. They shape how people access and share information, form their opinions, debate, and mobilise - they have deeply transformed the "public ...

  2. (PDF) International human rights law in digital space: an examination

    The State-centric international law does not establish clear human rights obligations of actors other than States and hence, there is a need to recognize new human rights actors in the digital space. The role of international human rights law to proactively guide the digital industry so that the respective functions, actions and decisions of ...

  3. Human rights and democracy in the digital age

    Safeguarding human rights and democratic space in the digital age has become more crucial than ever. My Office has identified three key elements that are essential to ensure progress in this direction. First, protecting our right to participate is central to the protection of democracy. Civil society plays a key role here - it must be ...

  4. Human Rights Violations in the Cyberspace: A Critical Study

    This paper focuses on online incidents of. human rights violations. It emphasises relevant case studies and issues that curb. fundamental rights and freedom in the digital space. The study also wanted to. understand if and how The current framework suppresses freedom of speech, assembly, and association, as well as the right to privacy.

  5. Human Rights in the Digital Age

    The complex relationship between human rights and digital technology is relatively new in the literature. It was only with the Arab Spring and the so-called "Facebook Revolution" that scholars started to explore the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on grassroots politics and social movements, the role of digital technology in constructing new human rights norms ...

  6. The Implications for Human Rights in the Digital Age­­

    This has many implications for people's human rights and fundamental freedoms, both positive and negative. Digital technologies can provide tools that help people exercise and safeguard their rights and freedoms. For example, the Internet and other communication technologies offer numerous opportunities for promoting the right to freedom of ...

  7. Race and Rights in the Digital Age

    This essay discusses how, despite the liberatory potential of technology, racial bias pervades the digital space. This bias creates tension with both the formal, de jure equality notion of "colorblindness" Footnote 1 (in U.S. constitutional law) as well as the broader, substantive, de facto equality idea (in international human rights law). The essay draws on the work of Osagie Obasogie ...

  8. The Future of Digital Spaces and Their Role in Democracy

    The Future of Digital Spaces and Their Role in Democracy. Many experts say public online spaces will significantly improve by 2035 if reformers, big technology firms, governments and activists tackle the problems created by misinformation, disinformation and toxic discourse. Others expect continuing troubles as digital tools and forums are used ...

  9. Human Rights in Cyberspaces: From Transmission to Transformation

    Abstract. This article explores how digital ecosystem accommodates anthropological attachment of human values and vice versa. From this point of view rights and obligations in cyberworlds receive ...

  10. It's the End of the (Offline) World as We Know It: From Human Rights to

    The process of developing new digital human rights through international law is not free from other controversies as well. 88 One pragmatic concern is that developing new rights and departing from the normative equivalency paradigm might be regarded as throwing into question the application of existing international human rights law norms to ...

  11. PDF Digital Technologies and Human Rights: a Legal Framework

    Adverse human rights impacts from the use of digital technologies may arise from the conduct of State agents or private actors or be caused by both, many times jointly or in cooperation. State action alone is the source of negative impacts, some constituting ... played an important role by creating more online space to share, like, comment, and ...

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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 ...

  13. Digital Human Rights

    Human rights apply online just as they do offline. Digital technologies provide new means to exercise human rights, but they are too often also used to violate them. Data protection and privacy ...

  14. PDF Human Rights in the Digital Age

    The interrelationship between the advancement and violation of human rights and digital technology is at the heart of the three books chosen for this essay. Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare, edited by Fitz Allhoff, Adam Henschke and Bradley Jay Strawser, starts with the premise that the histories of technology and of. ".

  15. Human rights in the digital age

    Focusing on human rights in the digital age is key. Data collection is already happening on an industrial scale. States, political parties, various organizations and, in particular, businesses hold remarkably detailed and powerful information about us. More and more aspects of our lives are being digitally tracked, stored, used - and misused.

  16. Human Rights in the Digital Age

    Human Rights in the Digital Age. Published in: Just Security. We are in a period of profound societal change and disruption, almost a tectonic shift, brought on by the rapid expansion of digital ...

  17. Human rights in the digital age: Challenges, threats and prospects

    The purpose of the study is to analyse the. main threats and challenges facing human rights and freedoms in the context of digitalisation, and to develop proposals on. promising ways to protect ...

  18. Resource: Civic Space and Governance

    Report presented at the 50th session of HRC that provides an overview of trends in Internet shutdowns. It contains an analysis of their causes and the legal implications and the impact on human rights thereof, the roles of companies, the existing efforts to promote Internet connectivity and provide development aid, and the relevance of such ...

  19. (PDF) Human rights and the digital

    The main challenge for the European Union and other actors is to transition all human rights to the digital sphere. This report argues that the human rights-based approach can be helpful in focusing discussions about security on individuals rather than states. It provides an overview of countries and companies that pose risks to human rights in ...

  20. Symposium: Human Rights in the Digital Sphere

    The issues of the digital world must be addressed within the scope of the three fundamental values, namely human rights, democracy, and rule of law. We therefore are very happy to host this symposium with our partners who share these values. I believe this symposium will be a wonderful kick off for further cooperation in the coming 25 years and ...

  21. The Intersection of Digital Technology, Fundamental Human Rights and

    These include social media, online commerce platforms, e-learning systems and digital identity systems, among others. The paper then identifies the fundamental rights that are at risk in Kenya's digital space, such as the right to privacy, freedom of expression, access to information, equality and freedom from discrimination.

  22. Digital, media and information literacy are key to freedoms

    In this context, it is important to note how much digital, media, and information literacy empowers individuals, as it allows the effective exercise of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to seek, receive and impart information and ideas, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 75 th anniversary, of which ...

  23. Cybersecurity, Human Rights, and Empiricism: The Case of Digital

    In light of this, it is understandable why surveillance has been central to the 'securitization' of discourse in cybersecurity (Deibert 2015, 124-5).If the predominant framing or conceptualization for cybersecurity is the identification, detection, and prevention of national security threats (Stevens 2016, 37; Dunn Cavelty 2013), 7 with little concern for other dimensions of surveillance ...