Global Policy UN Watch 15 | Digital Issues at the UN
The world according to algorithms: everywhere and (governance) nowhere? Digital issues populate multiple UN policy processes, programmes and agencies. See […]
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Briefings, Corporate Influence, Global digital justice
Developments following the Global Digital Compact (GDC)
The Global Digital Compact (GDC) was adopted as an annex to the Pact for the Future at the 2024 Summit
Briefings, Global digital justice
UNGA80 Third Committee: Digital and AI in human rights
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) Third Committee (C3) discusses issues of human rights, humanitarian matters, and social and cultural issues.
Briefings, Global digital justice
Cultural Rights and AI at 12th Expert Mechanism on Right to Development
12th Expert Mechanism on Right to Development (EMRTD), held 27-29 October 2025 in Geneva, had a session on Cultural Rights and AI titled “The impact of AI on creative industries, cultural rights, and the right to development”.
UNGA80 Third Committee vote on draft resolution “Promotion and protection of human rights in the context of digital technologies”
On 18 November 2025, the 80th UN General Assembly (UNGA) Third Committee (C3) adopted by vote a draft resolution “Promotion
Heard at 80th UN General Assembly High-Level Week 2025: Digital Issues
Global Policy Forum Briefing #43 Against the background of proliferating global crises and conflicts, a major issue for many world
FFD4: Comparison and Analysis of the FFD4 Zero Draft & Rev.1 – Science, technology, innovation (STI) and capacity building
Starting with the Elements Paper in November 2022, 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) (Seville, Spain from 30
Development of the 2024 Global Digital Compact (GDC)
Ahead of the Summit of the Future (SOTF) process, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a series of Policy Briefs to
Articles, Global digital justice
The Impact of Digital Technologies: a UN75 Priority?
By Carter Boyd and Elena Marmo
In recent years, the opportunities and challenges presented by rapid digitalization have become a staple on various agendas across the United Nations. Within the past few months, as the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 increase global reliance on digital technology, the relevance of and concerns about digitalization have heightened. Digital technologies have been prominent in a number of UN processes and deliberations such as UN75, human rights reports, the Roadmap for Digital Cooperation and the 2020 High-level Political Forum. Read more
Articles, Global digital justice
Human Rights in the Digital Age: Challenging Issues on the UN Agenda
By Elena Marmo
The potential and challenges of the digital economy are emerging steadily on the UN agenda. The UN General Assembly’s Committee on Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Issues (Third Committee) closed its 74th session in November 2019 adopting over 60 resolutions on a wide range of subjects, only one of which (A/C.3/74/L.11) addressed digital technologies. Read more
Articles, Economic justice, Global digital justice
Civil Society Response to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development
We, members of hundreds of civil society organizations and networks from around the world engaged in the Third FfD Conference, would like to express our deepest concerns and reservations on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, based on both our ongoing contributions to the process and the deliberations of the CSO FfD Forum (Addis Ababa, 10-12 July 2015).
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) lost the opportunity to tackle the structural injustices in the current global economic system and ensure that development finance is people-centred and protects the environment. Read more…
Articles, Global digital justice
Can peace be measured?
Marina Ponti, Social Watch
The post 2015 process will result in the adoption –by Heads of States at the United Nations on September- of a set of universal and transformative Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets.
The success of this agenda is also connected to the outcome of the discussion on indicators, which is taking place within the Inter-Agency Expert Group and the UN Statistical Commission. Read more…
Articles, Equitable Global Governance & UN reform, Global digital justice
Data & Development: Reality check for Post-2015 agenda?
By Sabá Loftus
The UN Statistical Commission discussed the challenges of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. This included implementation, measuring or monitoring progress as well as accountability. This includes a pragmatic look at the available data and implications for the Sustainable Development Goal indicators. Linkages between different agendas being negotiated in parallel such as Financing for Development, Post-2015 and Climate were starkly noticeable.