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and clearly defined exceptions provided in national legal frameworks, including judicial
authorization, in compliance with States’ obligations under international human rights law;
13.
Emphasizes that, in the digital age, encryption and anonymity tools have
become vital for many journalists to exercise freely their work and their enjoyment of
human rights, in particular their rights to freedom of expression and to privacy, including to
secure their communications and to protect the confidentiality of their sources, and calls
upon States not to interfere with the use of such technologies, with any restrictions thereon
complying with States’ obligations under international human rights law;
14.
Also emphasizes the important role that media organizations can play in
providing adequate safety, risk awareness, digital security and self-protection training and
guidance to journalists and media workers, together with protective equipment and
insurances, where necessary;
15.
Stresses the need to ensure better cooperation and coordination at the
international level, including through technical assistance and capacity-building, with
regard to ensuring the safety of journalists, and encourages national, subregional, regional
and international human rights mechanisms and bodies, including the relevant special
procedures of the Human Rights Council, treaty bodies and national human rights
institutions, in the framework of their mandates, to continue to address the relevant aspects
of the safety of journalists in their work;
16.
Invites United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, other international
and regional organizations, Member States and all relevant stakeholders, when applicable
and in the scope of their mandates, to cooperate further in promoting awareness of and
implementing the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue
of Impunity, and to this end calls upon States to cooperate with relevant United Nations
entities, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
relevant special procedures of the Human Rights Council and international and regional
human rights mechanisms;
17.
Invites States to share information on a voluntary basis on the status of
investigations into attacks and violence against journalists, including in response to requests
by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization through the
mechanism operated by its International Programme for the Development of
Communication;
18.
Encourages States to continue to address the issue of the safety of journalists
through the process of the universal periodic review;
19.
Requests the High Commissioner to prepare a report with an overview of
available mechanisms concerned with ensuring the safety of journalists, including existing
international and regional prevention, protection, monitoring and complaint mechanisms,
with a view to providing an analysis of their effectiveness, in consultation with States, the
mechanisms themselves and all other relevant stakeholders, and to submit it to the Human
Rights Council at its thirty-ninth session;
20.
Decides to continue its consideration of the safety of journalists in
accordance with its programme of work.
38th meeting
29 September 2016
[Adopted without a vote.]
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