A/HRC/RES/57/29 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 October 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–11 October 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 11 October 2024 57/29. Promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, in particular Council resolutions 31/7 of 23 March 2016, entitled “Rights of the child: information and communications technologies and child sexual exploitation”, 38/7 of 5 July 2018 on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet, 54/21 of 12 October 2023 on the right to privacy in the digital age and 56/7 of 10 July 2024 on freedom of opinion and expression, and recalling also General Assembly resolutions 70/125 of 16 December 2015 containing the outcome document of the high-level meeting of the Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, 75/176 of 16 December 2020 on the right to privacy in the digital age, 75/202 of 21 December 2020 on information and communications technologies for development and 78/213 of 19 December 2023 on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of digital technologies, Recalling also that the obligation and the primary responsibility to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms lie with the State, and that business enterprises have a responsibility to respect human rights as set out in the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, both online and offline, including by implementing human rights due diligence policies and participating in good faith in domestic judicial and non-judicial processes, Affirming the Global Digital Compact,1 adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 79/1 of 22 September 2024, and the sections of the Compact on Objectives, Principles, Commitments and actions and Follow-up and review, with regard to human rights, 1 General Assembly resolution 79/1, annex II. GE.24-18715 (E)