Join this work in progress (WIP) seminar to hear Dr. Bissell talk about her current book project, a forthcoming Oxford University Press (OUP) publication on the safety and protection of the world’s children. She will speak about the origins of the initiative and present its first chapter. This is a chapter that uniquely positions the protection of children around the world within a tripartite framework of human/children’s rights, public health,…

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In partnership with the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, the Romani Studies Program at Central European University, the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University, and the Centre for Medical Humanities at Oxford Brookes University, the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights will host a free,…

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Scores of actors from industry, government, professional associations and civil society, have issued voluntary guidelines on ‘ethical practices’ for the design, development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies, in recognition of their potentially harmful consequences to society. Many claim to address the protection of human rights. This work in progress (WIP) seminar draws from a study, co-authored with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr of the New School and published in…

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