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    2019 Feb 08

    Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series: Freedom in the World

    11:45am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman 102

     

    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is excited to announce its 2019 Speaker Series: Human Rights in Hard Places, facilitated by Carr Center Executive Director, Sushma Raman. 

    The Human Rights in Hard Places Speaker Series was formed to underscore that despite the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, vast human rights abuses are still occurring 7 decades later. ...

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    2019 Apr 17

    Study Group: Technology and Human Rights - Super Intelligent AI and Rights

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138

    Please join us for a study group on technology and human rights at the Harvard Kennedy School!

    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on technology, human rights and artificial intelligence. The study group, which will meet three times this semester, is convened and moderated by Steven Livingston, Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

    This is an open study group. No registration is required.

    The...

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    Eric Beerbohm

    Professor of Government, Harvard University
    Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
    Eric Beerbohm is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His philosophical and teaching interests include democratic theory, theories of... Read more about Eric Beerbohm
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    2019 Mar 04

    Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: Human Rights in a Digital Age

    5:30pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138

    niccomeleTowards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21stCentury is a new talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration from the title...

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    Digital Identity in the Migration & Refugee Context: Italy Case Study
    Mark Latonero, Keith Hiatt, Antonella Napolitano, Giulia Clericetti, and Melanie Penagos. 4/2019. Digital Identity in the Migration & Refugee Context: Italy Case Study. Data & Society. Data & Society. See full text.Abstract
    datasociety_digitalidentity.pdf
    New Report by Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow Mark Latonero.

    "Increasingly, governments, corporations, international organizations, and nongov-ernmental organizations (NGOs) are seeking to use digital technologies to track the identities of migrants and refugees. This surging interest in digital identity technologies would seem to meet a pressing need: the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) states that in today’s modern world, lacking proof of identity can limit a person’s access to services and socio-economic participation, including employment opportunities, housing, a mobile phone, and a bank account. But this report argues that the tech-nologies and processes involved in digital identity will not provide easy solutions in the migration and refugee context. Technologies that rely on identity data introduce a new sociotechnical layer that may exacerbate existing biases, discrimination, or power imbalances.How can we weigh the added value of digital identification systems against the potential risks and harms to migrant safety and fundamental human rights? This report provides international organizations, policymakers, civil society, technologists, and funders with a deeper background on what we currently know about digital identity and how migrant identity data is situated in the Italian context. "
    We Can't Future-Proof Technology. But Here are 5 Ways to Forward Plan.
    Alexa Koenig and Sherif Elsayed-Ali. 1/5/2019. “We Can't Future-Proof Technology. But Here are 5 Ways to Forward Plan.” World Economic Forum . See full text.Abstract
    New article co-authored by Carr Center Technology and Human Rights Fellow Sherif Elsayed-Ali.

    "We know that the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are drastically changing our world. This change is happening at a faster rate and greater scale than at any point in human history – and with that change come significant challenges to the ability of our public institutions and governments to adequately respond.

    From the plough to vaccines to computers, technological innovations have generally made human societies more productive. Over time, people have figured out how to mitigate their negative aspects. For example, electrical applications are much safer to use now than in the early days of electrification. Though we came close to disaster, since the Second World War the international political system has managed to contain the threat of nuclear weapons for mass destruction.

    However, the accelerating pace of change and the power of new technologies mean that negative unintended consequences will only become more frequent and more dangerous. What can we do today to help ensure that new technologies make life better, not worse?"

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/how-to-plan-for-technology-future-koenig-elsayed-ali/

    2019 Feb 28

    Psychiatric Diagnosis: The First Cause of Everything Bad in the Mental Health System

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138

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    Psychiatric diagnosis is completely unregulated and is widely — and unjustifiably — believed to be solidly grounded in science, to help reduce human suffering, and to expose psychiatrically labeled people to no harm. Dr. Paula J. Caplan resigned from two committees...

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