Presentation: New tool assesses human rights risks in digital projects

In Afghanistan and Myanmar, sensitive personal data originally collected, retained, and processed by donors have been used by the respective governments to persecute and suppress ethnic minorities and political opponents. These incidents have highlighted drastically just how careful we need to be in processing data.

It is against this backdrop, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the GIZ Sectoral Programme Human Rights have developed the Digital Rights Check.

It is a user-friendly tool that has been created to support you and your partners in identifying the human rights risks within digital project activities. These risks include, for example, restrictions on privacy, troubling threats to freedom of expression, and discrimination against marginalized individuals and groups.

During our presentation you will learn about the different features of the Digital Rights Check and how the tool can help you to mitigate risks to human rights work. In return, we’d love to learn from your feedback as well as which of the tool’s components you consider most helpful and what might be improved.