A Contemporary View of 'Family' in International Human Rights Law and Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Contemporary View ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
International Human

AI for humanitarian action: Human rights and ethics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Michael Pizzi ◽  
Mila Romanoff ◽  
Tim Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
Minimum Requirements ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
International Human

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI)-supported systems have transformative applications in the humanitarian sector but they also pose unique risks for human rights, even when used with the best intentions. Drawing from research and expert consultations conducted across the globe in recent years, this paper identifies key points of consensus on how humanitarian practitioners can ensure that AI augments – rather than undermines – human interests while being rights-respecting. Specifically, these consultations emphasized the necessity of an anchoring framework based on international human rights law as an essential baseline for ensuring that human interests are embedded in AI systems. Ethics, in addition, can play a complementary role in filling gaps and elevating standards above the minimum requirements of international human rights law. This paper summarizes the advantages of this framework, while also identifying specific tools and best practices that either already exist and can be adapted to the AI context, or that need to be created, in order to operationalize this human rights framework. As the COVID crisis has laid bare, AI will increasingly shape the global response to the world's toughest problems, especially in the development and humanitarian sector. To ensure that AI tools enable human progress and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, humanitarian actors need to be proactive and inclusive in developing tools, policies and accountability mechanisms that protect human rights.

International human rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 364-389
Author(s):  
Ronald Labonté ◽  
Arne Ruckert
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Normative Force ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
International Human

A long-standing and fundamental facet of global governance for health has been the development of an international human rights framework. Arising from the aftermath of World War II, human rights are comprised of several different covenants that constitute international law, albeit lacking in international enforcement measures. When these rights are instantiated within national laws or constitutions, however, they become justiciable within a country’s legal system. There are also global bodies responsible for oversight of their implementation. Their strength, as with that of the Sustainable Development Goals’ Agenda 2030, may rest more on their normative force—how the world’s people imperfectly expressed through their governments believe the world should work and look like. Given a growing illiberal temper in the emerging post-truth world, whether the norms embedded in human rights law can rise to the challenge of ‘taming’ globalization’s neoliberal underpinnings is a pivotal question still awaiting a firm answer.

Sustainable Development and Human Rights: An Integrated Conception

1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 796-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic McGoldrick
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Right ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
European Court ◽  
International Human

This article seeks to present an integrated conception of sustainable development, with particular emphasis on the contribution of international human rights law and theory. Part II considers a structural conception of sustainable development. Part III considers parallels between sustainable development and self-determination. Part IV provides some general reflections on international environmental law and international human rights law in terms of analogous concepts, principles and systems. What similarities are there and what differences? Part V considers the progress made towards recognition of a “human right to the environment”. Part VI considers how international environmental claims could be brought within the existing international human rights complaint systems. Part VII analyses the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in theLopez Ostracase (1994), the leading case on environmental claims to have reached that Court.

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