#HumanRights activist fighting against tech harm, corporate power & (#AI) injustice. Dancer, Feminist, Dreamer 🏳️🌈
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Marlena retweeted
🇺🇳 First #UNGA resolution on #AI: a positive step reinforcing #HumanRights approach, but more is needed.
The #UN has to set higher standards, including for #participation in AI governance & systems used for #NationalSecurity.
Read our joint statement ⤵️ accessnow.org/press-release/…
Marlena retweeted
🧵”Insufficient evidence”. After 13 years under criminal investigation for my human rights work as head of @eipr, 8 years under a travel ban and a freeze on my assets and only bank account without trial, facing up to 25 years in prison, l and other colleagues are exonerated /1
Marlena retweeted
The enduring costs of communication blackouts and lack of connectivity in Gaza: "We can't even call an ambulance. We use a horse cart to get the dead or injured into the hospital”
Radio has become the easiest, most reliable way to get the news in Gaza.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox…
Marlena retweeted
More profound when you consider that Doctors Without Borders rarely makes political statements.
In #UNSC mtg on Middle East, @MSF SG Christopher Lockyear says: "Israeli forces have attacked our convoys, detained our staff, bulldozed our vehicles, hospitals have been bombed and raided. And now for a second time, one of our staff shelters has been hit. This pattern of attacks is either intentional or indicative of reckless incompetence. Our colleagues in #Gaza are fearful that as I speak to you today, they will be punished tomorrow."
He adds: "The humanitarian response in Gaza today is an illusion. A convenient illusion that perpetuates a narrative that this war is being waged in line with international laws. Calls for humanitarian assistance have echoed across this chamber. Yet in Gaza we have less and less every day, less space, less medicine, less food, less water, less safety."
Marlena retweeted
Heading to LA later this week to join in conversation with some fabulous people about the role of human rights in AI: promiseinstitute.law.ucla.ed… @UCLA_Law @PromiseInstUCLA @vazquezllorente @ShannonRSingh @KAlexaKoenig @marle_wi @M_Karanicolas
Marlena retweeted
At the symposium on #AI & #HumanRights hosted by @PromiseInstUCLA, ECNL's @marle_wi w/ @bechamilton, @MarietjeSchaake, @M_Karanicolas & Randi Michel will center human rights in AI dev't to ensure that #GlobalSouthVoices are involved in decision making.
promiseinstitute.law.ucla.ed…
ALT Symposium banner for Panel Three
Marlena retweeted
Happy to see this work on arxiv!
In it, we survey 300+ AI audit papers & dozens of audit reports from various domains (academia, civil society, govt, etc) to taxonomize what exactly is going on in the AI audit space & how their methods relate to impact on actual accountability.
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Marlena retweeted
The Council is going to vote on the EU #AIAct tomorrow and until the last moments 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 have been voicing their opposition to the law. The AI Act is NOT going to effectively protect human rights but is this what is motivating them?
Our take:
ecnl.org/news/eu-governments…
Marlena retweeted
🚨 No carve-outs for private sector, national defence or national security in #AI global treaty!🚨
W/ @CoE_NGO, AlgorithmWatch, @theCAIDP & 30+ orgs, we call on #COE negotiators to ensure COE Convention on AI is not an empty shell!
Read more & sign on: ecnl.org/news/open-letter-co…
ALT Open letter to COE member states on AI Convention
Marlena retweeted
Witnesses say Israeli soldiers separated a group of Palestinian men from women and children and then killed at least 11 of the men in front of their family.
The remaining family were either shot at or hit with a grenade, seriously injuring some, including an infant and a child.
Marlena retweeted
Watch the full press conference, featuring @deblebrown and myself from @hrw, @marwasf from @accessnow, and @JalalAK_jojo from @7amleh:
youtube.com/live/pW7bma3f_fQ
Marlena retweeted
fucking infuriating. denying future researchers the knowledge of extant work is like an ongoing harm that sets everyone back forever. now we have to to do extra work to mitigate the internet observatory's erasure by creating & citing brand new work that properly acknowledges this
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Love to see this!
Shout out to @JenniOlsonSF @leannagarfield for their fearless work! And check out the social media safety index at glaad.org/publications/socia…🏳️🌈
Following Discord, the social media platform Post now also has a hate speech policy against targeted misgendering and deadnaming.
We look forward to other companies standing up against anti-trans hate.
Read more via @TheAdvocateMag advocate.com/business/post-j…
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Marlena retweeted
.@UNHumanRights reports Disturbing information from the north of Gaza of mass detentions, ill-treatment and enforced disappearances of possibly thousands of Palestinians #ceasefirenow reliefweb.int/report/occupie…