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Derechos Digitales Contribution to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) upcoming updates to the resolution on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Digital Technologies
We present a series of comments to contribute to the process of updating resolution A/RES/78/213, which continues to have as its main objective the guarantee and promotion of human rights both online and offline now integreting key aspects such as: Reaffirmation of the Pact for the Future and the Global Digital Compact; Acknowledgment of connectivity, access to the Internet and digital literacy importance, specially in developing countries; Artificial intelligence (AI) role in the promotion and protection of human rights; Disinformation and integrity of the information tensions in the context of AI; Children and vulnerable groups protection in digital environments; Gender perspective and inclusion; Reinforcement of meaningful participation of multiple stakeholders in digital technologies’ governance arenas; and safeguards in the misuse of bio metric and facial recognition technologies.