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Human Rights Approach Could Bridge Digital Divide


Human Rights Approach Could Bridge Digital Divide

A retired Spanish doctor started a campaign in change.org to denounce the treatment he was receiving from the banks.

Human Rights Approach Could Bridge Digital Divide

But digitalisation excludes many older people, whose lack of computer skills, devices and internet access, may prevent them from receiving ...

Ways to Bridge the Gender Digital Divide from a Human Rights - ohchr

24 This in turn may lead to reduced inequalities, and can assist in tackling the gender divide online and offline. A human rights approach to addressing the ...

The Digital Divide Is a Human Rights Issue: Advancing Social ...

Consistent with a social work human rights approach, the United Nations General Assembly declared access to the Internet a basic human right in 2016. This calls ...

Bridging the Digital Divide: Advancing Access to Broadband for All

It undermines social justice and equality. By working collectively to bridge this divide, we can help create a more inclusive, connected, and ...

Bridging the Digital Divide - Solidaridad Network

There are legitimate concerns about potential human rights violations in a world where data flows like a river from those without to those with ...

UN: Human Rights Council adopts resolution on human ... - Article 19

As examples, it calls on States to bridge the digital divide by “adopting national Internet-related public policies that have at their core the ...

The Digital Last Mile: Where the Achievement of Human Rights ...

More specifically, the “digital last mile”, in terms of women's economic empowerment, remains: bridging the gender digital divide to ensure that ...

A human rights‑based approach to bridge gender digital divide

In 2015, a survey conducted by Google revealed that almost half of the Indian female respondents did not see any reasons to access the Internet while some ...

Addressing the Digital Divide | UN-Habitat

Digital technologies have the potential to advocate, defend and exercise human rights, but they can also be used to suppress, limit and violate human rights.

Bridging the Gap Between the Digital and Human Rights Communities

The line between digital and traditional human rights is getting blurrier. As technology pervades every aspect of daily life, it's difficult to separate the ...

Examining the Causes and Consequences of the Digital Divide(s)

Objective 3 of the Compact refers specifically to the governance of these spaces to “uphold international human rights law throughout the life ...

How to Close the Digital Divide with a Human Approach | BCG

Case in point: a lack of internet access was one factor consistently linked to a high risk of death due to COVID-19, according to research ...

Human Rights-Based Technology Policies, Closing Digital Divide ...

The growing digital divide has intensified the challenges faced by vulnerable families and current inequities in access to technologies.

The digital divide is a human rights issue | Newswise

A University of Utah researcher argues access to high-speed internet, or broadband, is a human rights and social justice issue as lack of ...

Fixing the global digital divide and digital access gap

Navigating the complexity of digital divides can be extremely difficult, especially given the unique circumstances and systems particular to ...

Shaping digital technologies that empower people to build their lives

Digital technologies thus have expanded how people exercise almost all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – from ...

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Bridge Gender Digital Divide

This study calls for a human rights-based approach to bridge gender digital divide, which emphasizes women's rights to ICT-related education and training, ...

Solutions to the Digital Divide: Moving Toward a More Equitable ...

A major solution to reducing the digital divide is to increase connectivity in all communities. Providing widespread internet access can help previously ...

Bridging the Digital Divide: A Global Perspective

Access to digital technology is no longer a mere luxury but a critical human right in the modern era. However, 2.7 billion people around the ...