Feb 11 2020
Past event

Pre-Glion policy dialogue with the Permanent Mission of Mexico on ‘Human rights in the digital age: making technology work for rights’

Ahead of Glion VII, the Universal Rights Group (URG), with a number of supportive State delegations in Geneva, will organise a series of informal policy dialogues, designed to allow early consideration and exchange on different aspects of ‘Human rights in the digital age: making technology work for rights’.

On Tuesday 11th February 2020, the Permanent Mission of Mexico and the URG will host a Policy Dialogue on ‘Freedom of expression and access to information in the digital age’. The event will bring together around 40 senior level human rights experts to exchange views on a number of issues including, ‘data protection and privacy online’, ‘empowerment of rights-holders through access to information’, ‘using digital technologies to share information and knowledge about universal human rights’, and ‘digital hate speech’.

The agenda of the meeting will be made available here.

The background paper of the policy dialogue will be made available here.

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