An on-going disarmament campaign in North-Eastern Uganda has seen a clash between security forces and the local Karimojong community. But a quarterly Karamoja Regional Protection Meeting – KRPM, between all parties in the conflict, is ensuring a refocus on respect for human rights.

In her latest report, the UN Independent Expert on the rights of older persons examines the situation of older persons deprived of their liberty in the contexts of criminal justice, immigration-related detention, and care settings and how these affect their human rights.

Propelled by the common goal to make human rights more accessible, an innovative partnership is ensuring human rights guidance is incorporated into the Sustainable Development Goals. How? It’s all thanks to a machine learning algorithm.

The Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Gerard Quinn, says that, although artificial intelligence can be of great benefit to people with disabilities, it also has well-known discriminatory impacts.