Key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet 2011, para. 49
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Persons with disabilities often face additional obstacles in making full and effective use of the Internet. For example, in the United States of America, where 81 per cent of the total population has access to the Internet, this figure reaches only 54 per cent among people with disabilities.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
Persons with disabilities
Year
2011
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/290, para. 49.