A/HRC/RES/32/13
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 July 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 July 2016
32/13.
The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights
on the Internet
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by 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 all relevant resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and the
Human Rights Council on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, in particular
Council 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, and resolutions 12/16 of 2
October 2009, on freedom of opinion and expression, 28/16 of 24 March 2015, on the right
to privacy in the digital age, and 23/2 of 13 June 2013, on the role of freedom of opinion
and expression in women’s empowerment, and 31/7 of 23 March 2016, on the rights of the
child: information and communications technologies and child sexual exploitation, and
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, 70/184 of 22 December 2015, on
information and communications technologies for development, and 70/125 of 16
December 2015, containing the outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General
Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World
Summit on the Information Society,
Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,1 and
recognizing that the spread of information and communications technology and global
interconnectedness has great potential to accelerate human progress, to bridge the digital
divide and to develop knowledge societies,
1
General Assembly resolution 70/1.
GE.16-12327(E)