News and Blogs
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Technology Pill podcast series features young DHRP researchers
Privacy International's popular Technology Pill podcast featured a series of interviews with young researchers from our project in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam.
UN Human Rights director Peggy Hicks calls for human rights to be “encoded” in WHO digital health strategy
Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic and Special Procedures Division of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights delivered this important keynote address on human rights and digital health for DHRP's unofficial side event for World Health Assembly 79
Community Health: Colombia Dating App Dilemma
Privacy International speaks to Natalia Andrade and Laura Grisales Silva from Fundación Karisma about dating app data, the commodification of intimacy, and talking to Colombian young people about their experiences.
Community Health: Young People in Ghana and Vietnam
Privacy International speaks to Alberta Nadutey - a reasearch officer for working on the Digital Health and Rights Project about how young people in Ghana interact with digital health, and Minh Anh a young person from the Vietnam community advisory team about her participation in the research in Vietnam, and what she sees as the biggest digital health concerns as a medical student interested in public health policy.
WHA79 Side Event: Promoting Human Rights in Digital Health and AI Strategies: National and Global Perspectives
The Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP) World Health Assembly is pleased to announce its side event titled 'Promoting Human Rights in Digital Health and AI Strategies: National and Global perspectives'.
MOOC “Rights and Health in the Digital Age: Protection and Advocacy”
In the digital age, human rights face new challenges and opportunities that directly impact our health, dignity, and well-being. This MOOC, entitled "Rights and Health in the Digital Age: Protection and Advocacy," offers an educational journey through the fundamental concepts of digital human rights, their international regulatory framework, their links to digital health, and advocacy strategies for their defense.
Co-Creating Digital Justice: Reflections from the PLHIV Leadership Summit in Bangkok
Reflections from the PLHIV Leadership Summit for the Asia-Pacific region by Abhijith present deep reflections on the value of co-creating digital justice with a focus on the lived experiences of PLHIV. It is a call to action for meaningful involvement of PLHIV as people who are capable of building, rebuilding, and strengthening collective power in a rapidly changing digital world.
AI with Us, Not for Us: Reflections from the AI in Health Africa Conference 2025
The blog reflects on the AI in Health Africa Conference 2025, stressing that AI must be co-created with communities rather than designed for them. Drawing on lessons from the Digital Health and Rights Project, it emphasises the need for digital skills, genuine community involvement, stronger local innovation and youth voices in shaping AI policies.
From Advocacy to Academia: Becoming a DHRP Scholar
Amina Salaudeen, Women's Rights and Safety officer at TechHER, on becoming an MA student at University of Warwick.
Strengthening Gender, Equity and Rights in National Digital Health Strategies: Three online conversations
Exciting new webinar series brings together government, civil society, UN and youth voices to talk about how to address gender, equity and rights in new national digital health strategies!
From Accra to London: NAP+ Ghana researcher reflects on her visit
A visit to University of Warwick and lecture at Queen Mary University London by a NAP+ Ghana researcher
UN guidance on Digital Health, Gender Equality and Human Rights: An annotated list
UN guidance on gender, equity and rights in digital health, with summaries and links