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The rapid development of digital technologies has radically reconfigured the framework of societies, reconfiguring economies and governance forms beyond imagination up till then. The transformation has created thrilling innovative paths for human progress, facilitating access to information, augmenting announcement and prompting innovation. However, these benefits bring a steady erosion of safeguards against fundamental rights to protect against a broad range of developing and changing risks. With digitalization also redefining fundamental concepts such as privacy, freedom of expression, accessibility, and security, ensuring protection of human rights becomes more tough. Such revolution calls for comprehensive and adaptable policy reactions, as well as robust inter-sectoral alliances, for example, between governments, private enterprises, and civil society. In this paper, we undertake a close examination of the new condition of human rights in the digital age, both the significant challenges and the new opportunities that ascend. We evaluate the efficiency of existing legal mechanisms to meet the exceptional challenges presented by digital technologies, as well as provide new ways of building effective levels of engagement among diverse stakeholders. Besides, the article considers specific case studies, which show the real impacts of digitalization on human rights in action. We identify main hypotheses regarding these impacts and conclude with strategic suggestions for enhancing rights-based approaches across connected domains. Drawing on rich sources of foreign scholarship, new legal creativity, and finest practices, this article aims to subsidize to an improved consideration of how paradigms of human rights are shifting with a phase of persistent technological advancement.

digital age, human rights, digitalization, legal mechanisms, communication