Authors: Pranjali Kanel | Ravi Prakash Vyas | Thérèse Murphy As this Curated series draws to a close, we reflect on what it emphasises as regards human rights preparedness for digitalisation. This BlogPost series emphasises, first, the value of working across borders: the series is a pioneering collaboration between asia blogs and GC Human Rights Preparedness. Second, the series emphasises that the human rights movement has started to engage with digital technologies, including by harnessing them for human rights ends; at the same time, it is clear that we are still at the very ..read more

Author: Rohini Sen In framing education as a ‘right’, we often displace ways of learning that are inherent and indigenous to our everyday lives. Through counterculture pedagogy that thinks of kindness and imagination as forms of intelligence, education can be a collective endeavour where each of us are interconnected and knowledgeable in abundant ways. This reflection is part of a very important discussion on the generational turn to new technologies and our responses to it as those in dialogue with human rights. The series, as one can see, grapples with a significant core question: the extent ..read more

Author: Anusha Kharel The extraordinary growth of cyberspace has created new possibilities and threats in warfare. It has become crucial to identify a common understanding of cyber warfare if we are to effectively protect civilians from the direct and intentional effects of cyber operations. The concept of warfare is everchanging in the international game of power. From sword battles in the past to drone attacks today, we have seen the international game of power driven to shift and evolve by technology. The ‘space’ of battle has expanded too. In particular, the extraordinary growth of cybersp ..read more

Authors: Geeta Pathak Sangroula | Puja Silwal | Sanchit Singh COVID-19 arrayed the prospects and challenges that come with digital technologies. Going forward the development of healthcare standards with such technologies calls for a mindful approach that recognises the digital divide between countries. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the healthcare sector to unfathomable burdens. One consequence of this has been increased interest in technologies—artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced robotics. The aim is for such technologies to help address inefficiencies in the sector in fields from diagn ..read more

Author: Desara Dushi Advances in Natural Language Processing and machine learning have made it possible to design predictive models that can be used to assist judicial proceedings. Such technologies transform the legal profession; guaranteeing that this does not disrupt the rule of law, access to justice, fair trial and contestability is a substantial challenge. In what follows, I analyse the impact of AI systems on two fundamental rights: the right to a fair trial and due process, and the right to an effective remedy, concluding with potential solutions on human rights-based approaches to AI ..read more

Authors: Wiebke Lamer | Laura Thomi | Meredith Veit Experts have been ringing the alarm bells about children’s privacy online for some time, but the pandemic exacerbated the need to focus on children as right bearers in the digital age. So, what steps need to be taken in order to ensure that children are treated as such and we can build a society resilient to the digital crises of the future? As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, life for many millions of people around the world has been impacted dramatically and, to a large degree, shifted to the digital space. This is particularly true for t ..read more

Author: Rohini Sen In framing education as a ‘right’, we often displace ways of learning that are inherent and indigenous to our everyday lives. Through counterculture pedagogy that thinks of kindness and imagination as forms of intelligence, education can be a collective endeavour where each of us are interconnected and knowledgeable in abundant ways. This reflection is part of a very important discussion on the generational turn to new technologies and our responses to it as those in dialogue with human rights. The series, as one can see, grapples with a significant core question: the extent ..read more

Author: Anusha Kharel The extraordinary growth of cyberspace has created new possibilities and threats in warfare. It has become crucial to identify a common understanding of cyber warfare if we are to effectively protect civilians from the direct and intentional effects of cyber operations. The concept of warfare is everchanging in the international game of power. From sword battles in the past to drone attacks today, we have seen the international game of power driven to shift and evolve by technology. The ‘space’ of battle has expanded too. In particular, the extraordinary growth of cybersp ..read more

Authors: Geeta Pathak Sangroula | Puja Silwal | Sanchit Singh COVID-19 arrayed the prospects and challenges that come with digital technologies. Going forward the development of healthcare standards with such technologies calls for a mindful approach that recognises the digital divide between countries. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the healthcare sector to unfathomable burdens. One consequence of this has been increased interest in technologies—artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced robotics. The aim is for such technologies to help address inefficiencies in the sector in fields from diagn ..read more

Author: Desara Dushi Advances in Natural Language Processing and machine learning have made it possible to design predictive models that can be used to assist judicial proceedings. Such technologies transform the legal profession; guaranteeing that this does not disrupt the rule of law, access to justice, fair trial and contestability is a substantial challenge. In what follows, I analyse the impact of AI systems on two fundamental rights: the right to a fair trial and due process, and the right to an effective remedy, concluding with potential solutions on human rights-based approaches to AI ..read more