Advocacy
The United Nations Global Principles For Information Integrity provide recommendations and common advocacy points multi-stakeholder action in response to information risks.
Advocacy helps to transform policies and services that affect displaced and stateless people on a national, regional and global level. It is a vital part of our work at UNHCR. UNHCR uses advocacy to influence diverse stakeholders to adopt practices that ensure the protection of refugees, forcibly displaced and stateless populations.
Advocacy is an important activity in our response to misinformation, disinformation and hate speech, including when other more practical responses are challenged, for example due to the situation on the ground. This can be direct by UNHCR, or activities to support and enable partners to carry out advocacy work, for example by convening and creating linkages between people and organisations, such as refugees and digital platforms. The Information Integrity team is developing an advocacy strategy and is happy to discuss context and protection-specific approaches for UNHCR operations and teams, in line with UNHCR’s protection mandate.
The UN Global Principles for Information Integrity offer ready-to-use messaging, developed by the UN system and endorsed by UNHCR. They serve as a starting point to create tailored advocacy messages and recommendations.
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United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity
The United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity offer a holistic framework to guide multi-stakeholder action and advocacy for a healthier information ecosystem. The framework consists of five principles for strengthening information integrity, each of which include recommendations for key stakeholder groups. The principles are: societal trust and resilience; independent, free and pluralistic media; transparency and research; public empowerment; and healthy incentives. They all share at their core an unwavering commitment to human rights.
In addition to being grounded in international law, including international human rights law, the Global Principles complement the relevant United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UNESCO Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms, the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech.
The Global Principles provide common calls to action for advocates to use when engaging with:
- Technology Companies
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Actors
- Advertisers
- Other Private Sector Actors
- News Media Researchers and Civil Society
- States
- The United Nations