"Globalization, along with its digital and information communication technology counterparts, including the Internet and cyberspace, may signify a whole new era for human rights, characterized by new tensions, challenges, and risks for human rights, as well as new opportunities. Human Rights and...

"This book focuses on the new technological era as an innovative way to initiate democratic dialogue, but one that can also endangers individual rights to freedom, privacy, and autonomy"--Provided by publisher.

Information Technologies (ITs) are highly useful for human rights promotion globally. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have proved an influential tool in the fight against violations of human rights. Human rights are considered as those basic inalienable rights that every human...

The adoption of a Global Digital Compact (GDC) as one of the outcomes of the Summit of the Future opens up the opportunity to address in a systematic manner issues that are of critical importance for the digital global governance. It also poses a challenge to developing countries, as most of...

Administrative procedures (APs) are tools to protect fundamental human rights in statecitizen relations. As the modernization of public administration regulation is undergoing a transformation in the direction of reducing detailed rules on APs and, by the same token, emphasizing fundamental or...

Public goods and human rights are sometimes treated as intimately related, if not interchangeable, strategies to address matters of common global concern. The aim of the present contribution is to disentangle the two notions to shed some critical light on their respective potential to attend to...