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Human Rights Council in that regard, including with a view to particular challenges arising
in the digital age;
(d)
To participate in and contribute to relevant international conferences and
events with the aim of promoting a systematic and coherent approach on issues pertaining
to the mandate;
(e)
To raise awareness concerning the importance of promoting and protecting
the right to privacy, including with a view to particular challenges arising in the digital age,
as well as concerning the importance of providing individuals whose right to privacy has
been violated with access to effective remedy, consistent with international human rights
obligations;
(f)
To integrate a gender perspective throughout the work of the mandate;
(g)
To report on alleged violations, wherever they may occur, of the right to
privacy, as set out in article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 17
of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including in connection with the
challenges arising from new technologies, and to draw the attention of the Council and the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to situations of particularly serious
concern;
(h)
To submit an annual report to the Human Rights Council and to the General
Assembly, starting at the thirty-first session and the seventy-first session respectively;
5.
Invites the Special Rapporteur to include in the first report considerations that
the mandate holder finds relevant to address the right to privacy in the digital age;
6.
Calls upon all States to cooperate fully with and to assist the Special
Rapporteur in the performance of the mandate, including by providing all necessary
information requested by him or her, to respond promptly to his or her urgent appeals and
other communications, to consider favourably the mandate holder’s requests to visit their
countries and to consider implementing the recommendations made by the mandate holder
in his or her reports;
7.
Encourages all relevant stakeholders, including the United Nations and its
agencies, programmes and funds, regional human rights mechanisms, national human rights
institutions, civil society and the private sector to cooperate fully with the Special
Rapporteur to enable the mandate holder to fulfil the mandate;
8.
Requests the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to provide the
Special Rapporteur with all the human and financial resources necessary for the effective
fulfilment of the mandate;
9.
Decides to continue its consideration of the matter under the same agenda
item.
56th meeting
26 March 2015
[Adopted without a vote.]
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