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🆕 #HRC56 🔹 An eye-opening and truly enriching dialogue with Ms. Ashwini K.P., Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of #Racism, who presented three outstanding reports to the Council on : 🔹 her visit to the #UnitedStates, depicting positive efforts and pending challenges in advancing #racialequity and #justice 🔹 the nexus between #racialdiscrimination and #artificialintelligence, with an urgent call for inclusive #AI design and governance 🔹 combating the glorification of Nazism and related ideologies 💡 In her thematic report on #AI, the Rapporteur further identified four crossing ways in which AI was contributing to racial discrimination: 🔹 data problems 🔹 algorithm design problems 🔹 the use of discriminatory purposes 🔹 accountability problem Learn more in our in-depth report also summarizing views expressed by countries, NGOs, UNICEF and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 👉 https://lnkd.in/dusm7NEH Minority Rights Group ISMUN Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor #SayNoToRacism #StopRacism

What is the intersection between artificial intelligence, gender and #organisedcrime? #WPSHelpdesk’s latest research explores how new AI developments impact serious and organised crime while shedding light on the nuanced #gender dynamics in victimisation and criminal participation. Learn more about the future of #AI governance and policy implications: https://bit.ly/4bkCk1N

According to the Digital Rights Foundation, the use of generative AI content for violence against women has shown an alarming spike in 2023 📈 Their 7th annual report revealed that 2473 complaints were registered in 2023 through their helpline, with an average of 206 per month ☎️ This high trend of gender-based violenc in online spaces shows how women and marginalized groups are more actively targeted, especially with the modern editing and generative AI to produce non-consensual intimate images (NCII) 🖥️ The women were the main victims of online harassment constituting 58.5pc of the complainants while the transgender community was also subjected to an orchestrated online hate campaign👨🏻💻 The report highlighted that the highest number of complaints received in 2023 were from Punjab (1,724), followed by Sindh (261) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (112) 🌐 . . . #ppwf #genderbasedviolence #violenceagainstwomen #onlineharassment #AI #artificialintelligence #safespace #safetyfirst #digitalrights

8 days of the Campaign on Gender Based Violence 2023

Two key components can enhance self-identification for individuals with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities: anonymity and privacy in measurement methods. During #LGBTQPrideMonth, we invite you to read more in this #GDLab study: https://bit.ly/4bnyc0e

James Messerschmidt’s 1993 theory that crime serves as a resource for "doing gender" radically shifts our understanding of male criminality. It suggests that men may resort to crime to assert their masculinity in situations where traditional avenues are blocked by social or economic barriers. This concept introduces critical questions about the societal structures that foster such conditions and challenges us to reconsider rehabilitation and prevention strategies that address these deeply ingrained gender norms. How should criminal justice systems be restructured to more effectively address the societal pressures that lead to gendered criminal behaviors? What role can community programs play in reshaping these gender expectations? #Masculinities #CrimeTheory #Messerschmidt #CriminalJustice #GenderNorms #Rehabilitation #Prevention #CommunityDevelopment #SocialStructures #CriminologyResearch

Over the next 16 days take action to end gender based violence in all forms.

Register now for the 2024 Annual Meeting Ethics for on #GenderAffirmingCare. Participants will learn how to: 1. Identify the legal and challenges to providing gender affirming care to transgender and gender non-conforming patients 2. Describe the practical and ethical considerations of providing appropriate treatment options to support and affirm an individual’s preferred gender identity 3. Consider health disparities faced by gender diverse populations, including barriers to health care access, and discrimination Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eAVYWQXx

👏 Last week we celebrated the #DiversityDays at Europol! 🌈 🌍 👩💻 👮♀ 👩⚖️ During these sessions we were invited to reflect on #gender equality and #sexism, #LGBTQI+ rights, #race and #ethnicity diversity and #cultural inclusivity. ⬇ Here some examples of the topics addressed: ⛓ How can #AI perpetuate wrong and hurtful #stereotypes and the implications when these tools are used by #lawenforcement authorities: AI reproduces implicit #biases of humans, even in the absence of explicit #algorithmic rules that stereotype. Human intervention is one of the solutions. However, not using factors such as #race and #skincolour for policing is another measure explained by Bas Böing. 🤝 Examples of initiatives from law enforcement to #fight #discrimination and #racism: AI profiling can exacerbate existing inequalities and deepen #mistrust between law enforcement and #minority communities. This can have serious consequences for those communities, including increased rates of policing, arrests, and incarceration. Therefore, training on these issues are essential to ensure a #fair, #efficient and #inclusive #police. 🎤 During these days remarkable voices came to participate and share their insights Ms Agnès Diallo (Executive Director of EU-Lisa), Ms Catherine De Bolle (Executive Director of Europol), Ms Michaela Moua (she/her) (Anti-Racism Coordinator at the European Commission), Ms Lut Vanderwaeren (Diversity and Inclusion Management at Federal Police Belgium), etc.

November 30, behind closed doors, the Supreme Court of Russia reviewed an administrative claim submitted by the Ministry of Justice and officially recognized the international LGBT movement as an “extremist organization”, and prohibited its activities in the country. There was an article in the medical journal The Lancet “Experts warn of health harms of Russia's anti-LGBT ruling”: https://lnkd.in/dj3frs2y This text describes the latest anti-LGBT laws that have come out in Russia and their impact on the rights and health of LGBT people. Our experts also commented on the impact of the ruling on the sexual health of LGBT people: “We know that HIV thrives when human rights are violated. But the new Russian legislation sends a direct message to the LGBT community: don’t dare speak about your rights, don’t dare speak about yourselves at all…State-induced homophobia and transphobia will force LGBT people further underground. I’m afraid this will prove itself to be an almost insurmountable barrier in the fight against the HIV epidemic among LGBT people in Russia”, Vitaly Djuma, Executive Director of the ECOM, told The Lancet. Nikolay Lunchenkov MD, MSc, LGBT Health Coordinator, added that, under the new law, providing HIV-prevention services to LGBT people would effectively be outlawed: “The organisations that were providing HIV services to key populations will be closed down very soon. The services they provide are not banned, but such organisations cannot openly say that they work with men who have sex with men and transgender people. Under the new law, it could be considered as support for extremism”.