Advocacy Briefing for Defending the Rights of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants in The Digital Age

This document is intended as an advocacy resource for activists, advocates, civil society actors and refugee and migrant communities impacted by digital technologies and surveillance in asylum and migration contexts. It provides a human rights framework and principles through which to analyse the impact of emerging and existing technologies on refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, including how to consider discriminatory and intersectional impacts. It also provides advocacy recommendations that can be taken from the document and given directly to key stakeholders developing and/or deploying digital technologies and surveillance, namely States, companies, inter-governmental organizations, and service providers.

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