ICT4Peace
was invited by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHRs)
to participate in the consultations on its Management Plan 2018-2021. The
comments of ICT4Peace’s Sanjana Hattotuwa in response to the questions posed by
OHCHR can be found here and are as the follows:
I. From your perspective what
are the challenges and opportunities for positive human rights change in the
current global context?
II. How do you see our comparative and
collaborative advantage?
III. From your perspective, which thematic
areas should OHCHR address as a priority in the coming four years to maximize
its human rights impact?
On ICT4Peace’s
cooperation with OHCHR
The IC4Peace
Foundation’s substantive engagement with OHCHR’s Peace Mission Support and
Rapid Response Section and the Methodology, Education and Training Sections
since 2012 covered the following areas of work:
§ Critically observe and engage with
developments in social and new media and secondly – given the increasing
surveillance of human rights defenders and the myriad of ways through which
ICTs can be used to spread hate, hurt and harm – how new tools can aid vital
communications in fragile and violent contexts. (http://ict4peace.org/?p=3152, http://ict4peace.org/?p=2722);
§ CVE and PVE, notably also around the
protection of Freedom of Expression online (http://ict4peace.org/?p=4173);
§ The former UN SG’s Human Rights Up
Front initiative, http://ict4peace.org/?p=3668, on how Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) could assist
and strengthen a common operational framework, situational awareness and
information exchange around human rights within the UN family, as well as
bringing into the UN architectures information from the public domain – in line
with the thrust of the UN HRUF initiative.
Sanjana, Hattotuwa,
ICT4Peace Special Advisor, Geneva, 19 April 2017
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