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  • Sep112020

    Essex Expertise Informs Facial Recognition Decision

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    The expertise and leading-edge research of three Essex academics has informed a landmark judgment on police use of facial recognition.…

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  • Sep012020

    AI’s Role in COVID-19 Poses Human Rights Risks Beyond Privacy

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    Blog written by Carmel Williams. It should come as no surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) is being positioned as significant to…

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  • Jul082020

    Policy Briefing on the Escalation of Domestic Violence During the Covid-19 Related Lockdown

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    Social distancing in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic has led to millions of families the world over being…

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  • Jun222020

    A Conversation with U.N. Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed: Covid 19 and Freedom of Belief

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    This interview first appeared in Just Security on 18 June 2020. Ryan Goodman, Just Security‘s co-editor-in-chief, recently posed a series of…

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  • May222020

    The COVID-19 Pandemic: Five urgent principles for leaving no one behind through technology

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    This post first appeared on the Universal Rights Group website. The UN Secretary General has characterised the pandemic as a…

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  • May192020

    Knowing all of the law, all of the time – responding to Covid 19

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    This post originally appeared on the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law website on 14 May 2020. As Paul White has…

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  • Apr302020

    Contact-tracing Apps and Human Rights

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    This post originally appeared on the EJIL: Talk! blog. The Covid-19 pandemic engages the full spectrum of states’ human rights…

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  • Jan142020

    Assessing failures of universal health coverage in a regime where the state can be held accountable- the case of Colombia

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    This blog originally appeared in Spanish on: Foco económico: un blog latinoamericano de economía y política Sonia Bhalotra (University of…

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  • Dec312019

    Documenting potential Human Rights Violations using Natural Language Processing, Images and Open-Source Information

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    The project has continued work on developing new approaches to documenting human rights through the use of natural language processing,…

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  • Dec312019

    Investigating Opportunities and Threats to the Right to Health in a New Data-driven Economy

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    A key part of HRBDT’s research is investigation into how data analytics and AI technologies can promote and hinder human…

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