The role of the HR Council in promoting a human rights based approach to new & emerging technologies

High Level Panel Discussion: “The role of the Human Rights Council in promoting a human rights-based approach to new and emerging technologies”

Tuesday, 15th June 2021

Co-organizer: Core Group on new technologies (Republic of Korea, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Morocco, Singapore); OHCHR

In his “Call for Action on Human Rights”, UN Secretary-General Guterres identified new and emerging technologies as a new frontier for human rights. He called for the development of a human rights-based for the digital space, following-up on the recommendations of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. Within the framework of the Human Rights Council and its special mechanisms, numerous resolutions, publications, and recommendations have emerged in recent years addressing the impact of new technologies on specific rights (right to privacy, freedom of association, freedom of expression, children's rights, economic/social/cultural rights). In 2019, the HRC adopted a resolution tasking its Advisory Committee to develop a global perspective on the issue and to identify options for action for the HRC. The report will be presented to the HRC at its 47th session in June 2021.

Program

Welcoming remarks
Assistant Secretary General, Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, acting UN Tech Envoy High Level

Opening Panel
Moderator: H.E. Ms. Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations Offices and other international organizations in Geneva

- High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet
- Foreign Minister of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg
- Foreign Minister of Denmark, Jeppe Kofod
- Foreign Minister of Morocco, Nasser Bourita
- Vice Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, Choi Jong-moon

Panel Discussion:
Moderator: Charlotte Stix (technology policy expert; coordinator of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG) of the European Commission)

(1) Applying human rights for Tech: Norms, gaps, and challenges.

- Eileen Donahoe,Executive Director Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford
- Julie Owono,Facebook Oversight Board
- Stephen Bereaux, Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau

Interventions from the floor

(2) Possible impacts, opportunities and challenges of new and emerging digital technologies with regard to the promotion and protection of human rights – report of the Advisory Committee (A/HRC/47/52).

- Baek Buhm-Suk, member of UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (current rapporteur of the Advisory Committee for the report)
- Peggy Hicks, OHCHR

Interventions from the floor

Closing:
H.E. Mr. Lee Taeho, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations Offices and other international organizations in Geneva.



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