GENEVA (2 June 2023) – UN experts* today called for greater transparency, oversight, and regulation to address the negative impacts of new and emerging digital tools and online spaces on human rights...
In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 47/16, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of trends in Internet shutdowns.
A recent report of the UN Human Rights Office warns Government-imposed internet shutdowns cause profound damage to the daily lives of millions of people, and undermine a range of human rights, first and foremost the right to freedom of expression.
GENEVA (23 June 2022) - The dramatic real-life effects of Internet shutdowns on people’s lives and human rights have been vastly underestimated, the UN Human Rights Office warns in a new report issued...
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.
MORNING The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with Gerard Quinn, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, on artificial intelligence in the...
Connected to the Ocean since childhood, for Titouan Bernicot a self-made ocean conservationist – says that was his playground and he wants to save it by planting coral reefs.
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.
GENEVA (3 July 2019) – As more details emerge about casualties during Sunday’s mass protests in towns and cities across Sudan, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday...
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