A/HRC/RES/58/23
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 April 2025
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-eighth session
24 February–4 April 2025
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
on 4 April 2025
58/23.
Human rights defenders and new and emerging technologies:
protecting human rights defenders, including women human rights
defenders, in the digital age
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and
other relevant instruments,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 53/144 of 9 December 1998, by which the
Assembly adopted by consensus the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of
Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized
Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, commonly referred to as the Declaration on
Human Rights Defenders, and the continued validity and application of all its provisions, and
reiterating the importance of the Declaration and its promotion and full and effective
implementation,
Recalling also all other previous resolutions on this subject, including Human Rights
Council resolutions 22/6 of 21 March 2013, 31/32 of 24 March 2016, 34/5 of 23 March 2017,
40/11 of 21 March 2019 and 43/16 of 22 June 2020, 49/18 of 1 April 2022 and 52/4 of 3
April 2023, and General Assembly resolutions 68/181 of 18 December 2013, 70/161 of 17
December 2015, 72/247 of 24 December 2017, 74/146 of 18 December 2019, 76/174 of 16
December 2021 and 78/216 of 19 December 2023,
Affirming the Global Digital Compact adopted by the General Assembly in its
resolution 79/1 of 22 September 2024, and the sections of the Compact on objectives,
principles, commitments, actions, follow-up and review with regard to human rights,
Reiterating that all human rights and fundamental freedoms are universal, indivisible,
interdependent and interrelated and should be promoted and implemented in a fair and
equitable manner, and emphasizing that the same rights that apply offline also apply online,
Reaffirming that States have the primary responsibility and are under the obligation to
respect, protect and fulfil all human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons, and
welcoming the steps taken by many States to create a safe and enabling environment for
human rights defenders, both online and offline,
GE.25-05546 (E)