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UN unanimously adopts Pakistan sponsored resolution over “Countering Disinformation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms”

Sabah Aslam by Sabah Aslam
November 26, 2021
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The move came after ‘EU DisinfoLab’ exposed India’s major disinformation campaign against Pakistan last year.

NEW YORK, Nov 16, (Asia Free Press): The United Nations on Tuesday unanimously adopted a Pakistan-sponsored resolution, “Countering Disinformation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”

Pakistan Permanent Representative, Ambassador Munir Akram, while introducing the rationale and the context of this resolution, said: “The world is plagued today by the exponential proliferation of disinformation, which is exacerbating social discord, competing nationalisms, discrimination, hate speech, stigmatization, racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and related intolerances. This has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the extreme reliance on Information Technology, yielding phenomena from fake cures to anti-vaccine conspiracies.”

Elaborating on the components of the resolution, Ambassador Akram said that the resolution on disinformation “highlights the negative impact on the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the rapid spread of disinformation, through online platforms and social media.

“It notes with concern that ICTs have enabled pathways for false or manipulated disinformation to be created, disseminated and amplified for political, ideological, or commercial motives at an unprecedented scale, speed, and scope,” said in a statement issued from Pakistan mission to the UN.

The resolution also emphasizes how important it is that business enterprises, including online platforms and social media companies, ensure that their commercial objectives do not undermine human rights.

“Their business models and business operations, data collection and data processing practices and advertisement policies should be compliant with international human rights law,” said Pakistani envoy and adding they must not allow their platforms to be used for spreading disinformation, which leads to discrimination, incitement to hatred, hostility, violence, and polarization.

Ambassador Akram reiterated that Pakistan is committed to countering the virus of disinformation by all possible means.

“We shall continue to promote this by both national means and through international cooperation with the Member States and other stakeholders under the umbrella of the United Nations.”

The resolution was the outcome of broad-based and extensive consultations with all member states and was co-sponsored and supported by many states.

The adoption of this resolution has contributed to promoting transparency and the initiation of a concerted campaign to counter disinformation by states and all relevant stakeholders following international human rights law.

The General Assembly will formally adopt the resolution in the second week of December.

The resolution came after EU DisinfoLab exposed India’s major disinformation campaign against Pakistan last year, now the UN stepped to protect other countries from such malicious disinformation campaigns.
In November last, a 15-year-long campaign to “denigrate” Pakistan and Kashmir at international forums was busted by a Europe-based disinformation watchdog.

The EU DisinfoLab exposed a disinformation campaign that targeted the European Union and UN with over 750 fake local media outlets and more than ten non-governmental organizations.

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