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The Proliferation of Cyber War and International Humanitarian Law

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.

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Human Rights in the Era of Automated Decision Making and Predictive Technologies

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.

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Children’s Rights, COVID-19 and Preparing for Digital Disasters

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?

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Social Media Opened a Gateway to Traffickers During India’s Deadly Second Wave of COVID-19

Technology played a significant part in traffickers taking advantage of COVID-19’s second wave in India. A number of children lost both their parents and for a few weeks, ‘COVID orphan adoption’ messages proliferated across social media. State institutions and civil society were unprepared for this challenge.

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Assessing the Intersection Between Technology and Human Rights: Notes from a lecture by Christof Heyns

Technology is very much part of what we do. It is an integrated part of how we think today and not something that one can push away. The question is: how do we make sure that we manage it to serve our purposes from a human rights point of view?

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