A/HRC/RES/47/23 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 16 July 2021 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-seventh session 21 June–14 July 2021 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 13 July 2021 47/23. New and emerging digital technologies and human rights The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, and other relevant international human rights instruments, Recalling the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, Recalling also Human Rights Council resolution 41/11 of 11 July 2019 on new and emerging digital technologies and human rights, and other relevant resolutions adopted by the Council and the General Assembly, the most recent of which are Council resolutions 31/7 of 23 March 2016 on the rights of the child: information and communications technologies and child sexual exploitation, 38/7 of 5 July 2018 on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet, and 42/15 of 26 September 2019 on the right to privacy in the digital age, and Assembly resolutions 73/17 of 26 November 2018 on the impact of rapid technological change on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets, 75/176 of 16 December 2020 on the right to privacy in the digital age, and 75/202 of 21 December 2020 on the information and communications technologies for sustainable development, Taking note of the Secretary-General’s initiatives on new technologies, including the Call to Action for Human Rights, launched in 2020, the Road Map for Digital Cooperation, launched in June 2020, and the establishment of the Office of the Envoy of the SecretaryGeneral on Technology, Recalling the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as endorsed by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 17/4 of 16 June 2011, and encouraging States, who are the primary duty-bearers, and business enterprises, including technology companies, to implement the Guiding Principles in order to foster respect for human rights online and offline in the context of new and emerging digital technologies and human rights due diligence processes, Reiterating the importance of ensuring appropriate safeguards and human oversight in the application of new and emerging digital technologies, and of respecting and promoting GE.21-09913(E)