A/HRC/RES/51/3
Noting that, in his 2021 report entitled “Our Common Agenda”, the Secretary-General
stated that consideration should be given to updating or clarifying the application of human
rights frameworks and standards to address frontier issues and prevent harms in the digital or
technology spaces, including in neurotechnology,
1.
Requests the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee to prepare a study
in an accessible format, including an easy-to-read version, on the impact, opportunities and
challenges of neurotechnology with regard to the promotion and protection of all human
rights, including recommendations on how human rights opportunities, challenges and gaps
arising from neurotechnology could be addressed by the Huma Rights Council and its special
procedures and subsidiary bodies in a coherent, holistic, inclusive and action-oriented
manner, and to present the study to the Council at its fifty-seventh session;
2.
Also requests the Advisory Committee, when preparing the above-mentioned
study, to seek the views and inputs from, and to take into account the relevant work already
done by, stakeholders, including Member States, 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, other relevant United Nations agencies, funds
and programmes within their respective mandates, national human rights institutions, civil
society, the private sector, medical and technical communities, academic institutions and
other relevant stakeholders;
3.
Invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the treaty
bodies and the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, within their respective
mandates, to give due consideration to the impact of neurotechnology on the full enjoyment
of all human rights and fundamental freedoms;
4.
Decides to remain seized of this matter.
40th meeting
6 October 2022
[Adopted without a vote.]
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