Tag: World Bank
Digital identity: Our five calls to action for the World Bank
For the second year in a row, the World Bank is leaving digital identity programs off the agenda for its annual summit. Here’s why we need urgent action to stop further human rights abuse, exclusion, marginalization, and surveillance.
Carta abierta: El Banco Mundial y sus donantes deben proteger los derechos humanos en los sistemas de identificación digital
Organizaciones de la sociedad civil están llamando al Banco Mundial a que cese de apoyar sistemas de identificación digital no verificados.
#WhyID: World Bank and dangerous digital ID systems do not mix
Access Now and partners are calling on the World Bank to stop supporting digital ID systems that enable surveillance, exclusion, and discrimination.
#WhyID: El Banco Mundial y los sistemas de identificación digital peligrosos no se mezclan
Organizaciones de la sociedad civil están llamando al Banco Mundial a que cese de apoyar sistemas de identificación digital no verificados.
Open letter: World Bank and its donors must protect human rights in digital ID systems
Access Now and partners urge the World Bank to immediately stop activities that promote harmful models of digital ID systems.
We need to talk about digital ID: why the World Bank must recognize the harm in Afghanistan and beyond
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund met this week. They didn’t discuss digital identity programs, even though the World Bank itself funds “Big ID” systems.
#WhyID: international actors in Afghanistan must clean up, restrict dangerous biometric trail
#WhyID: Access Now and civil society is calling on international actors to take immediate action to restrict and secure biometric data in Afghanistan.
Civil society organizations call for a full integration of human rights in the deployment of digital identification systems
In August 2020, more than 60 civil society organizations from across the world come together for dialogue with the World Bank’s ID4D Initiative and other key stakeholders. The consultation was an intervention to center human rights in the field of digital ID, and today we are releasing a report summarizing the discussion.
#WhyID: Access Now responds to World Bank Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development
The ID4D Principles must, from their very conceptualisation, seek to protect the human rights of the individual.