A/HRC/44/57 Advance Edited Version Distr.: General 18 June 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fourth session 15 June–3 July 2020 Agenda item 9 Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Racial discrimination and emerging digital technologies: a human rights analysis Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance* Summary In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, E. Tendayi Achiume, analyses different forms of racial discrimination in the design and use of emerging digital technologies, including the structural and institutional dimensions of this discrimination. She also outlines the human rights obligations of States and the responsibility of corporations to combat this discrimination. * The present report was submitted after the deadline so as to include the most recent information.