'Human Rights Day 2020: Microsoft’s ongoing commitment and responsibility', December 10, 2020

To help mark Human Rights Day 2020, we are pleased to release an update to the Microsoft Global Human Rights Statement… Technology should be used for the good of humanity, to empower and protect everyone and to leave no one behind… Our commitment to respecting and advancing human rights includes respect and support for the work of human rights defenders around the world... Human rights defenders face persistent physical, social, economic, and psychological threats. Microsoft does not tolerate threats, intimidation, retaliation, physical, legal or cyber-attacks against human rights defenders. This commitment extends to all human rights defenders, including those working on issues related to Microsoft and those exercising their rights of freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, including to challenge or protest aspects of our own business. In all countries, and especially in those with weaker protections for civic freedoms and where threats to human rights defenders are more pronounced, we commit to consult with local human rights defenders as part of our human rights due diligence and to support their work with increased sensitivity to the challenges and complexities they face. We seek to build human rights defenders’ capacity to achieve their goals through increased trust in technology...