ICANN and Human Rights

The topic of human rights on the Internet has been one of significant interest, right from finding mention in the WSIS Declaration of Principles in 2003, to the UN Human Rights Council’s First Resolution on Internet Free Speech, which declared that the rights available to people offline must also be protected online. These have subsequently also been reaffirmed by UN General Assembly’s resolution on the right to privacy in the digital age, and the NETmundial outcome document, which called for human rights to underpin the principles of Internet governance.

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