#HumanRights: Digital Diplomacy for Human Rights Advancement

• Autor(a) principal: Matos, Warley Gian da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFU
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/24937
• topic: CNPQ::OUTROS::RELACOES INTERNACIONAIS; Digital Diplomacy; Public Diplomacy; Human Rights; International Organizations; Inter-American Human Rights System; European Human Rights System; African Human Rights System; Twitter; Diplomacia Digital; Diplomacia Pública; Direitos Humanos; Organizações Internacionais; Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos; Sistema Europeu de Direitos Humanos; Sistema Africano de Direitos Humanos; Twitter

How do international human rights systems use digital diplomacy to foster the advancement of human rights? Beyond traditional institutionalized mechanisms and background negotiation, international human rights bodies increasingly rely on digital diplomacy to pursue multiple objectives. Through social media, they make way to diffuse norms and ideas, they collaborate with a range of actors, spread reliable and real-time information and engage with audiences. Digital diplomacy also helps to overcome limitations and manage institutional image. At the same time, it poses challenges regarding transparency, coordination, coherence and assimilation. Twitter is the main social media used by all three existing regional human rights systems. Comparative analysis suggests that tweeting in the Americas and Europe is more frequent, better orchestrated and multi-purposed than in Africa, where Twitter is still a novel toolbox towards human rights advancement.