DEPARTMENT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF LAW, PRIVATE LAW AND BUSINESS LAW
LAW & TECHNOLOGY
Law & Technology
Human rights: freedom of expression, non-discrimination & children’s
rights (9 October 2023)
Prof. dr. Eva Lievens
1
,Part II
Interaction between
Technology and Law
Human Rights
̶ Chapter 4. Freedom of expression and
digital technologies
̶ Chapter 6. Digital discrimination
̶ Chapter 7. Children's rights in the digital
environment
2
, Are human rights relevant in relation to
digital technologies?
How can human rights be affected by digital technologies?
3
, Promote or Interfere with or
enhance human violate human
rights rights
Recognizing that new and Recognizing also the risks that
emerging digital technologies can new and emerging digital
have the potential to facilitate technologies may have for the
efforts to accelerate human protection, promotion and
progress, to promote and protect enjoyment of human rights,
human rights and fundamental including but not limited to the
freedoms, to bridge digital divides, right to equality and non-
to support, inter alia, the discrimination, the right to
enjoyment of the rights of persons freedom of opinion and
with disabilities and those in expression, the rights to freedom
vulnerable situations, the of peaceful assembly and freedom
advancement of gender equality of association, the right to an
and the empowerment of all effective remedy and the right to
women and girls, and to ensure privacy, in accordance with
that no one is left behind in the States’ obligations under
achievement of the Sustainable international human rights law
Development Goals
United Nations Human Rights Council (2021) New and emerging digital technologies and human rights,
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G21/176/16/PDF/G2117616.pdf?OpenElement
The connection between human rights and technology becomes clear when
we look at the human rights organisations. There have been adopted many
documents to regulate these interactions. This is not easy, as there are
always two sides to the story: (1) techno can advance human rights, but (2)
there are also risks connected to techno.
On the dia: one example of the many documents. On the left side is (1), on
the right side there is (2).
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LAW & TECHNOLOGY
Law & Technology
Human rights: freedom of expression, non-discrimination & children’s
rights (9 October 2023)
Prof. dr. Eva Lievens
1
,Part II
Interaction between
Technology and Law
Human Rights
̶ Chapter 4. Freedom of expression and
digital technologies
̶ Chapter 6. Digital discrimination
̶ Chapter 7. Children's rights in the digital
environment
2
, Are human rights relevant in relation to
digital technologies?
How can human rights be affected by digital technologies?
3
, Promote or Interfere with or
enhance human violate human
rights rights
Recognizing that new and Recognizing also the risks that
emerging digital technologies can new and emerging digital
have the potential to facilitate technologies may have for the
efforts to accelerate human protection, promotion and
progress, to promote and protect enjoyment of human rights,
human rights and fundamental including but not limited to the
freedoms, to bridge digital divides, right to equality and non-
to support, inter alia, the discrimination, the right to
enjoyment of the rights of persons freedom of opinion and
with disabilities and those in expression, the rights to freedom
vulnerable situations, the of peaceful assembly and freedom
advancement of gender equality of association, the right to an
and the empowerment of all effective remedy and the right to
women and girls, and to ensure privacy, in accordance with
that no one is left behind in the States’ obligations under
achievement of the Sustainable international human rights law
Development Goals
United Nations Human Rights Council (2021) New and emerging digital technologies and human rights,
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G21/176/16/PDF/G2117616.pdf?OpenElement
The connection between human rights and technology becomes clear when
we look at the human rights organisations. There have been adopted many
documents to regulate these interactions. This is not easy, as there are
always two sides to the story: (1) techno can advance human rights, but (2)
there are also risks connected to techno.
On the dia: one example of the many documents. On the left side is (1), on
the right side there is (2).
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