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(c)
To promote, protect, respect and ensure all women’s and girls’ full enjoyment
of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, both online and offline, without distinction
or discrimination of any kind, and to counter all violence or threats of violence faced while
exercising this right;
(d)
To strengthen measures to ensure that persons with disabilities can exercise the
right to freedom of expression and opinion, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas on an equitable basis and through all forms of communication of their
choice, including through the provision of accessible and affordable formats and
technologies;
(e)
To enable everyone, including journalists and other media workers, and human
rights defenders to exercise their right to freedom of opinion and expression, including by
taking effective measures, such as prevention and protection mechanisms, to ensure their
safety both online and offline, and to protect in law and in practice the confidentiality of
journalists’ sources, including whistle-blowers, in acknowledgement of the essential role of
journalists and those who provide them with information in fostering government
accountability and an inclusive, democratic and peaceful society;
(f)
To respect the right to freedom of opinion and expression in the media, in
particular editorial independence, to promote a pluralistic approach to information and
multiple points of view, inter alia by encouraging a diversity of ownership of media and of
sources of information, including mass media, and by promoting the economic sustainability
of media, and to refrain from the use of imprisonment or the imposition of fines for offences
relating to the media where such measures are disproportionate to the gravity of the offence,
and to take note of the Windhoek+30 Declaration;
(g)
To develop, adopt and implement, in consultation with civil society and
journalists’ organizations, national action plans based on human rights obligations and
tailored to online as well as offline issues, to advance the freedom, independence and
pluralism of the media; to set up prevention and protection mechanisms for the safety of
journalists, and to promote awareness about human rights standards and best practices;
(h)
To refrain from creating or disseminating false or misleading information,
which can be designed and spread so as to violate or abuse human rights, including the rights
to privacy and freedom of opinion and expression, and to take appropriate and proportionate
measures to mitigate risks arising from disinformation, while stressing that responses to the
spread of disinformation must be grounded in international human rights law;
(i)
To support relevant efforts promoting the right to freedom of opinion and
expression that strengthen the resilience of societies against the impact of disinformation and
misinformation at all levels, including through digital, media and information literacy,
education and inclusion;
(j)
To facilitate an environment supportive of addressing disinformation through
multidimensional and multi-stakeholder responses that are in compliance with international
human rights law, including through enhanced cooperation with international organizations,
civil society, the media, the private sector and other stakeholders;
(k)
To encourage business enterprises, including social media companies, to
address disinformation while respecting human rights, including through the review of
business models, in particular the role of algorithms and ranking systems in amplifying
disinformation, enhancing transparency, enforcing all applicable legal protections for users
and encouraging human rights due diligence in line with the Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights;
(l)
To adopt and implement laws and policies that ensure the freedom to seek,
receive and impart information, including by:
(i)
Undertaking all necessary efforts to ensure easy, prompt, effective and
practical access to government information of public interest, including online, and
encouraging the proactive disclosure of information held by public entities in the
broadest possible terms, including on grave violations and abuses of human rights,
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