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SUMMARY:Resisting anti-rights attacks on the LGBTQ+ movement in the digital age
DESCRIPTION:Session description:  \n\n\n\nThe rise of the anti-rights movement is accelerating the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people and identity in Africa.  \n\n\n\nIn Senegal\, the government’s amendment of Article 319 of Senegal’s Penal Code has triggered alarming crackdowns on LGBTQ+ people\, online and offline. In Ghana\, members of parliament recently passed the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill\, which will increase censorship and surveillance of LGBTQ+ people in Ghana. The threats to human rights are emerging not only at the national level\, but across the continent; anti-rights actors are now lobbying to pass the draft  African Charter on the Protection of the Family\, Sovereignty\, and Religious and Cultural Values at the African Union. This dangerous law would roll back LGBTQ+ rights\, women’s rights\, and sexual and reproductive health rights for millions of people in Africa.  \n\n\n\nThe digital space is playing a critical role in enabling both state and non-state actors to target LGBTQ+ people in criminalized contexts. In this webinar\, experts will unpack how the anti-rights movement is weaponizing narrative framing on family values to restrict rights\, how Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill will impact people across the continent\, and what we can do to fight back. \n\n\n\nWatch the event here: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\n\nEbenezer Peegah\, Executive Director\, Rightify Ghana \n\n\n\nMumbi Kanyogo\, Executive Director\, Kenya Comms Hub \n\n\n\nYvonne Wamari\, Senior Programme Officer – Africa\, Outright International\n\n\n\nModerator: Jaimee Kokonya\, Africa Campaigner\, Access Now\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosting organisations
URL:https://www.accessnow.org/event/resisting-the-anti-rights-attacks-on-the-lgbtq-movement-in-the-digital-age/
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SUMMARY:Not AI for Good
DESCRIPTION:Session description:  \n\n\n\nThis civil society-led counter-event to the AI for Good Global Summit takes a critical look at the overhyped role of AI in solving humanity’s long-standing problems\, and at the UN’s ongoing partnerships with tech companies increasingly implicated in human rights abuses\, violence\, and armed conflict.  \n\n\n\nBuilding on the recent joint civil society statement on AI in warfare\, launched by Access Now and Amnesty International — backed by over 350 signatories — and Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect’s joint webinar on Emerging Approaches to the Protection of Civilians in the Age of AI\, Not AI for Good calls for an urgent rethinking of the tech-solutionist vision currently driving the humanitarian sector. It also examines the growing role of tech companies as defense contractors\, and their part in exacerbating the very crises the humanitarian sector seeks to address. \n\n\n\nJoin us for an off-the-cuff and frank discussion about what goes unsaid at the AI for Good Summit\,  and to explore pathways toward a more just and fair humanitarian tech ecosystem. \n\n\n\nWatch the event here: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\nGiulio Coppi\, Senior Humanitarian Officer\, Access Now\n\n\n\nLuc Dockendorf\, Ambassador for Cybersecurity and Digitalisation\, Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, Luxembourg\n\n\n\nTina Mason\, Researcher\, Tech for Bad\n\n\n\nAbeba Birhane\, Principal Investigator\, Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (AIAL)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by:
URL:https://www.accessnow.org/event/not-ai-for-good/
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