A/HRC/RES/28/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 April 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-eighth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
28/16. 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 and the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
Recalling the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all
human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,
Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights Council,
and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the Council, of
18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her duties in
accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto,
Recalling also General Assembly resolutions 68/167 of 18 December 2013 and
69/166 of 18 December 2014 on the right to privacy in the digital age, and Human Rights
Council decision 25/117 of 27 March 2014 on the panel on the right to privacy in the digital
age,
Recalling further its resolutions 20/8 of 5 July 2012 and 26/13 of 26 June 2014 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
GE.15-06878 (E)