UN Human Rights Council Affirms Human Rights on the Internet

In June the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on the "promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet".

• After laying a foundation in the mold of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the guidance of the UN Charter, 
• recalling several previous resolutions that confirmed that established human rights are at stake in several particular issues that all involve the internet and that these rights apply in digital spheres just as they do in offline ones and observing similar finds by other bodies--issues like freedom of opinion and expression, privacy, women's rights, and child exploitation and the rights of children--
• and restating the value of the internet and its previously-recognized/resolved/declared importance to the fate of other human rights along with threats and current harms to that potential--

--the resolution affirms that "the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online" and calls on government to protect and promote human rights in these new avenues as it must in the old.