A/HRC/RES/58/23 10. Continues to express its particular concern about systemic and structural discrimination, economic disenfranchisement, violence and harassment disproportionately faced by women human rights defenders in diverse situations and conditions, including sexual and gender-based violence, as well as defamation, disinformation and smear campaigns, both online and offline, and reiterates its strong call upon States to take appropriate, robust and practical steps to protect women human rights defenders and to integrate a gender perspective into their efforts to create a safe and enabling environment for the defence of human rights; 11. Condemns unequivocally online attacks against women and girls, including sexual and gender-based violence and abuse of women and girls that occurs through or is amplified by technology, such as doxxing, deep-faking, cyberstalking and online harassment, and against women by the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, whether real or simulated, in particular where women human rights defenders engaging in public debate are targeted for their expression, and calls for gender-responsive approaches that take into account these particular forms of online discrimination and harassment; 12. Calls upon States to create and support an enabling environment for the full, equal and meaningful participation of women’s civil society organizations and women human rights defenders, both online and offline, including by bridging the gender, geographic and other digital divides; 13. Underscores the responsibility of all business enterprises, particularly those in the tech industry or operating online both transnational and others, in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, to respect all human rights, including the rights to life, liberty and security of person of human rights defenders, and their exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and participation in public affairs, which are essential for the promotion and protection of all human rights; 14. Encourages business enterprises, including communications service providers and social media companies, to work towards enabling solutions to secure and protect the confidentiality of digital communications and transactions, including measures for encryption, pseudonymization and anonymity, and to ensure the implementation of humanrights compliant safeguards, and to carry out human rights due diligence in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights throughout the lifecycle and value chain of their services and products in order to identify, prevent and address potential risks to human rights defenders; 15. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene three regional workshops, including through hybrid modalities, to assess the risks created by digital technologies to human rights defenders and best practices to respond to these concerns in different geographical areas, bearing in mind current and emerging business models and gender, geographic and other digital divides and sensitivities, with participation from civil society, human rights defenders and the private sector; 16. Also requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report containing a summary of those consultations, which could include recommendations for due diligence and improved responses to the risks created by digital technologies to human rights defenders, including those exposed to discrimination and those working in situations of armed conflict, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-third session; 17. Decides to remain seized of the matter. 58th meeting 4 April 2025 [Adopted without a vote.] 7