The impact of new technologies on human rights: 22nd EU NGO Human Rights Forum
22/01/2021
Each year, the European Union and civil society jointly organise a forum on human rights around the world. FIDH, as one of the organisers of the 2020 edition, welcomes the 22nd annual forum’s exploration of one of the greatest challenges of our times: ensuring that technological governance be grounded in human rights.
FIDH believes that human rights must become a central priority in the debate on new technologies. The stakes are high. Digital technology, new technologies, and artificial intelligence are now inextricably bound up with our lives – in the form of communication tools, as well as tools of economic, climatic or medical rationalisation. By rushing into globalised competition without first thinking to the rationale, we render our future all the more uncertain. Yet human rights are not yet properly included in considerations and discussions on use of these new technologies.