By Ajay Sandhu
Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 24 to 31 March 2017.
You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Luiza Drummond Veado and Cecilia Grillo
Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world
Research shows link between temperature rise and human influence, says head of UN climate panel – UN News Centre
Development cooperation is key to realizing rights to safe drinking water and sanitation – OHCHR
YouTube Censors HRW Video on LGBT Censorship – Human Rights Watch
By Luiza Drummond Veado and Cecilia Grillo
Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world
Pesticide use ‘threatens human rights’, UN advisers say – Chemistryworld
Two United Nations workers kidnapped in DRC – Aljazeera
South Africa launches hate crime unit with Nigeria – Aljazeera
In Somalia, little sign of promised food aid for 6 million people facing starvation – The Guardian
Africa Ignores Cameroon Crisis As Human Rights Abuses Mount – AllAfrica
Angola: Respect Women’s Right to March – Human Rights Watch
African Union and South Sudan stalling on human rights court – AllAfrica
Egypt: Possible Extrajudicial Killings in Sinai – Human Rights Watch
By Ajay Sandhu
Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 10 to 17 March 2017.
You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Luiza Drummond Veado and Cecilia Grillo
Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world
Polluted environments kill 1.7 million children each year, UN health agency reports – UN News Centre
Pesticides are “global human rights concern”, say UN experts urging new treaty – OHCHR
UN announces new approach to ‘stamp out’ sexual exploitation and abuse – UN News Centre
A Challenge to Protect Schools During War – Amnesty International
By Ajay Sandhu
Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 4 to 10 March 2017.
You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
By Ajay Sandhu
The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project (HRBDT) recently made a submission to the UK Home Affairs Committee inquiry into ‘Policing for the future: changing demands and new challenges’. The submission summarized the opportunities and risks associated with the police’s adoption of ‘data driven technologies,’ which aid the bulk collection, storage, and analysis of data about persons, places, and practices. Data driven technologies can improve the efficiency of police work by offering law enforcement agencies methods of analysing crime data and generating predictions about crime that is yet to take place. For example, police can use data driven technology to make decisions regarding the most-effective allocation of scarce police resources. However, existing research indicates a series of risks that must be considered when adopting data driven technologies. This submission highlights three risks associated with data driven technologies, focusing on: the quality of the input data, the potential for discriminatory decision-making, and privacy harms. This blog recaps the conclusion of our submission by highlighting the risks associated with data driven technologies used to predict crimes.
By Luiza Drummond Veado and Cecilia Grillo
Each week students at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepare an overview of the past week’s human rights related news stories from around the world
In Geneva, UN urges upholding human rights amid rising populism and extremism – UN News Centre
‘Make some noise’ for safe, supportive HIV/AIDS care, says UN on Zero Discrimination Day – UN News Centre
By Ajay Sandhu
Each week the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre prepares an overview of related news stories from the week. This summary contains news articles from 24 February to 3 March 2017.
You can follow the HRBDT Project on twitter: @hrbdtNews.
A University of Essex Human Rights Centre team has qualified for the oral rounds of the second LSE-Featherstone Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Moot competition. The competition will take place on 3rd to 4th March 2017 at the London School of Economics. The Essex team consist of postgraduate students Luiza Drummond Veado, Fredrik Aahsberg and Angela Giannini. The coaches are PhD students Paulina Jimenez Fregoso and Alan Msosa.
