Letter to the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
Today a Document together with the Legal Opinion on 5G was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (HRCAC).
This document was submitted by a group of NGO's, together with Associate professor Olle Johansson, and with the help from Lawyer Christian F. Jensen Bonnor Advokater. Feel free to reuse our documents for your own organization, if you also want to make yourself heard.
The HRCAC Advisory Committee invites "inputs on opportunities & challenges of new & emerging digital technologies on rights."
Core questions (for all stakeholders)
- In what ways do new and emerging digital technologies help to protect and promote human rights? How can the positive benefits of these technologies be realized?
- What are some of the key human rights challenges arising from new and emerging digital technologies? How can these risks be mitigated?
- Do new and emerging digital technologies create unique and unprecedented challenges or are there earlier precedents that help us understand the issue area?
- Is the existing international human rights framework adequate to safeguard human rights in an era of rapid technological innovation? Why or why not? If not, what types of reforms are needed? ...
Background
UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee invites inputs on opportunities & challenges of new & emerging digital technologies on rights
In July 2019, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution entitled, “New and emerging digital technologies and human rights”. In this resolution, the Council requested that the Advisory Committee prepare a report on the possible impacts, opportunities and challenges of new and emerging digital technologies with regard to the promotion and protection of human rights and to present the report to the Council at its forty-seventh session.
The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee invites inputs from key stakeholders on this topic via the questionnaire below by 15 October 2019. Inputs should be sent via email, mail, or fax to the following address:
Secretariat of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
OHCHR - United Nations Office at Geneva
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
E-mail: hrcadvisorycommittee@ohchr.org
Fax: +41 22 917 9011
What activities are planned ?
Advisory Committee is preparing a report, and to present the report to the Council at its 47th session; Seeking 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
- academic institutions;
Office of the High Commissioner convenes a panel discussion at its 44th session on the impacts, opportunities and challenges of new and emerging digital technologies with regard to the promotion and protection of human rights. 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.
Sources:
Read the resolution here. Available in other languages here.
Main page:
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/un-human-rights-council-advisory-committee-invites-inputs-on-opportunities-challenges-of-new-emerging-digital-technologies-on-rights
