United Nations
A/RES/71/199
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 68 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/484/Add.2)]
71/199. The right to privacy in the digital age
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also the human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and relevant international human rights
treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2 and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2
Reaffirming further the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 3
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 68/167 of 18 December 2013 and
69/166 of 18 December 2014, as well as Human Rights Council resolutions 28/16 of
26 March 2015 on the right to privacy in the digital age 4 and 32/13 of 1 July 2016
on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet, 5 and
welcoming the appointment of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council
on the right to privacy,
Welcoming 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, 6
Taking note of the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy 7
and the reports of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the
promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, 8
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
4
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53),
chap. III, sect. A.
5
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A.
6
Resolution 70/125.
7
A/HRC/31/64 and A/71/368.
8
A/HRC/32/38 and A/71/373.
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