A/HRC/58/60 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Overview of activities ................................................................................................................... 3 III. Digital technologies and cultural heritage: a cultural rights approach .......................................... 6 IV. Main challenges of digitalization of cultural heritage ................................................................... 8 A. Recognizing and ensuring the right to cultural heritage in the digital era ............................ 8 B. Right to cultural heritage and digitalization processes in times of crisis .............................. 10 C. Avoiding dispossession through digitalization ..................................................................... 11 D. Ensuring contextualization ................................................................................................... 12 E. Combating cultural misappropriation and misuse................................................................. 13 F. Ensuring access and participation to overcome the digital divide ........................................ 13 G. Addressing open access to digital cultural heritage .............................................................. 14 H. Revising intellectual property protections to infuse a cultural rights approach .................... 15 I. Long-term preservation to ensure the right to cultural heritage of future generations .......... 17 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 18 V. 2 GE.25-01705