Towards United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity.




The United Nations conducted wide-ranging and diverse consultations on information integrity across all regions with its Member States, civil society, including youth-led organizations, media, academia and private sector representatives. Stakeholders spoke through country-level discussions, virtual sessions, bilateral meetings and via a globally disseminated public online form. These consultations highlighted a demand for unifying recommendations that are applicable across all geographies and contexts and that address the requirements of all individuals, in particular attending to the needs of groups in situations of vulnerability and marginalization. In response, the United Nations Global Principles forInformation Integrity offer a holistic framework to guide multi-stakeholder action for a healthier information ecosystem. This 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. The Global Principles acknowledge and build on the extensive efforts and progress already made by States, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders. They provide a unified point of departure for protecting and promoting information integrity in all walks of life, and in all languages and contexts, recognizing the global solidarity and breadth of responses required at an unprecedented scale, speed and intensity. The Global Principles present an occasion for individuals, public and private entities, including the UnitedNations system, Governments, media, civil society organizations and for-profit corporations across the technology, advertising and public relations sectors, to align with the rights and freedoms enshrined in international law and form broad coalitions for information integrity. The Global Principles build on the ideas proposed in Our Common Agenda and in the United Nations Secretary-General’s policy brief 8: information integrity ondigital platforms. 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 Recommendationon the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the United Nations Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech. 

The Global Principles offer a resource for United Nations Member States in their considerations towards A Pact for the Future and the Global Digital Compact. In this way, the Global Principles further reflect the unwavering commitment of the United Nations to strengthening information integrity and are intended to guide the work of the Organization into the future

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