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Researcher Calls for Inclusion of Rights in AI Strategies
July 31, 2018
Oxford researcher Dr. Emre Eren Korkmaz writes that governments developing strategies regarding promotion of artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies must include in their planning a broad range of nongovernmental organizations and other stakeholders to ensure these strategies heed the economic and social rights agenda.
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Microsoft Chief Calls for Regulation of Facial Recognition Tech
July 31, 2018
Tech giant Microsoft’s President Brad Smith has called on Congress to appoint a bipartisan expert commission to issue recommendations on how best to regulate facial recognition technology, arguing that voluntary business conduct is no substitute for democratically accountable legislative action.
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UN Observers Advise Kenya on Implementing BHR Agenda
July 31, 2018
At the end of its recent visit to Kenya, the UN Working Group on business and human rights (BHR) issued a statement welcoming the country’s development of a BHR national action plan and setting out a broad range of guidelines regarding how the country could improve on implementing the BHR agenda.
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NGO Seeks Business Review of Tech Gender Gaps
July 31, 2018
Michelle Lau-Burke and Callie Strickland of the nongovernmental organization The B Team call on technology companies to perform due diligence to understand the “gendered dimensions” of their products and services, including harassment of women on their platforms, using frameworks such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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Sustainable Palm Oil Group Suspends Nestle
July 31, 2018
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, an industry group that places pressure on businesses to meet a broad range of environmental and social criteria in their palm oil supply chains, has suspended food company Nestle from its ranks over its failure to report on its progress and to pay membership fees.
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