A/HRC/RES/34/7
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 April 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-fourth session
27 February–24 March 2017
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 March 2017
34/7.
The right to privacy in the digital age
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international human rights treaties, including the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Recalling the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all
human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 68/167 of 18 December 2013, 69/166 of 18
December 2014 and 71/199 of 19 December 2016 on the right to privacy in the digital age,
and 45/95 of 14 December 1990 on guidelines for the regulation of computerized personal
data files, Human Rights Council decision 25/117 of 27 March 2014 and Council resolution
28/16 of 26 March 2015 on the right to privacy in the digital age, and all other relevant
resolutions of the Council, in particular resolutions 33/2 of 29 September 2016 on the safety
of journalists, resolution 12/16 of 2 October 2009 and all other resolutions on the right to
freedom of opinion and expression, and resolutions 20/8 of 5 July 2012, 26/13 of 26 June
2014 and 32/13 of 1 July 2016 on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights
on the Internet,
Welcoming the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights on the right to privacy in the digital age, noting with interest its report
thereon, and recalling the panel discussion on the right to privacy in the digital age held
during the twenty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council, 1
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See A/HRC/28/39.
GE.17-05665(E)