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and offline through or amplified by the use of digital technologies, including artificial
intelligence, including but not limited to sexual and gender-based violence, abuse and sexual
harassment, cyberbullying and cyberstalking, the non-consensual sharing or dissemination of
intimate content, whether real or simulated, harmful practices, and all forms of trafficking in
persons and sexual and other types of exploitation, the commitment to reduce inequalities
and the commitment to leave no one behind, as contained in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development and the Sustainable Development Goals,
1.
Requests the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee to prepare a study
on technology-facilitated gender-based violence and its impact on women and girls,
including by developing a better understanding of the issue, highlighting good practices
around the globe in tackling gender-based violence that occurs through or is amplified by the
use of technology, and making recommendations on how to address the issue, and to present
the study to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-third session;
2.
Also requests the Advisory Committee to work in close collaboration with
relevant stakeholders, including the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls,
its causes and consequences, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the
right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy,
the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, the Working Group on the
issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, the
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
and the United Nations Population Fund, to seek the views of and inputs from and to take
into account relevant work already done by stakeholders, including States, United Nations
agencies, entities, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, international and
regional organizations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies, national
human rights institutions, survivors and survivor centred-organizations, civil society,
including women’s rights and youth organizations, the private sector, academic institutions,
multi-stakeholder initiatives and other relevant stakeholders, when preparing the abovementioned study.
36th meeting
11 July 2024
[Adopted without a vote.]
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