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(g)
To prioritize the development and implementation of national online child
safety policies and standards, in compliance with international human rights law, including
the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
(h)
To expand access to the Internet and secure communication tools, including by
increasing funding for such digital security resources as encrypted communication
applications and secure reporting channels;
(i)
To refrain from the criminalization, delegitimization or stigmatization of, or
smear campaigns, hate speech and disinformation targeting, human rights defenders for
documenting human rights violations and abuses, including for communicating with nonState actors, for this purpose;
(j)
To refrain from Internet shutdowns, network restrictions or any other measures
aiming to disrupt or prevent human rights defenders from having access to or disseminating
information and communicating safely and securely, including through the use of blocking,
throttling or filtering measures, or by interfering with the use of technologies, such as
encryption or anonymity tools;
(k)
To promote measures and technical solutions for strong encryption and
anonymity, such as pseudonymization, not to interfere with the use of such technical
solutions, with any restrictions thereon complying with States’ obligations under
international human rights law, and to enact laws and policies that protect the privacy of
individuals’ digital communications;
(l)
To support efforts to enable human rights defenders to store and safeguard their
information securely, without fear of unlawful surveillance or data breaches or arbitrary
seizure of equipment including putting in place robust legal safeguards to prevent the misuse
of digital tools to suppress dissent or target defenders and ensure that their rights online and
offline are protected;
(m) To refrain from and cease measures that violate human rights, including such
practices as the targeted use of spyware against human rights defenders, as such actions may
be incompatible with international human rights law, and to make available mechanisms to
provide appropriate remedies for victims of surveillance-related violations of law, consistent
with international human rights law;
(n)
To ensure that biometric identification and recognition technologies,
including facial recognition technologies, are not used by public and private actors for mass
surveillance, and are used only when consistent with international human rights law and the
principles of legality, necessity and proportionality, and also to ensure access to remedies
for human rights violations and abuses arising from biometric identification and recognition
technologies;
(o)
To ensure that the criminalization and prosecution of terrorism, cybercrimes
or national security offences, defamation and libel laws and other and other measures used
to address threats in this regard are in accordance with their obligations under international
human rights law, and to avoid the criminalization of human rights defenders or unduly
hindering their work;
(p)
To adopt and implement laws and policies that discourage strategic lawsuits
against public participation targeting journalists, media outlets and human rights defenders,
including women human rights defenders, and to provide legal support to victims;
(q)
To take all steps necessary to prevent threats, attacks, discrimination, arbitrary
arrests and detention or other forms of harassment, reprisals and acts of intimidation against
civil society actors, including human rights defenders, to promptly, impartially and
independently investigate any such alleged acts, to ensure access to justice and accountability
and to end impunity where such violations and abuses have occurred;
(r)
To enhance the collection of disaggregated data on the situation of human
rights defenders, also by benefiting from data collected by civil society, the media and
national human rights institutions, including on threats, attacks or violence against human
rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, and to do their utmost to make
them available to the Office of the High Commissioner;
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