The Global Digital Rights Coalition for World Summit on the Information Society (GDRC-WSIS) and the Global Digital Justice Forum (GDJF) published a summary statement on the central role human rights play in achieving the WSIS vision of building a people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented information society.
The statement reaffirmed the signatories’ view that the outcome document of the WSIS+20 review should consistently and progressively acknowledge the fundamental importance of human rights in the governance of digital technologies and the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines.
The Zero Draft explicitly anchors the WSIS in international human rights law and acknowledges that the respect, protection and promotion of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights is instrumental to achieve the WSIS vision.