
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
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UN guidance on gender, equity and rights in digital health, with summaries and links
Winnie Gift Inganga, a member of the Kenya Community Advisory Team, highlights the urgent need for collective responsibility in protecting data and privacy. It explores how governments, corporations, and even close relations misuse personal information, leading to surveillance, discrimination, and harm. With Kenya’s legal framework providing protection, it emphasises awareness, accountability, and the duty to safeguard each other’s digital rights.
Jack Wilson, author of the Countering Misinformation module, describes what led him to collaborate with young people in DHRP to create the module.
In the margins of the 77th World Health Assembly on May 21 2025 in Geneva, leaders from governments, multilateral agencies, civil society and academia convened for a pivotal hybrid event titled “Overcoming Barriers to Digital Health: Protecting Human Rights and Preventing Online Harm in the Digital Health Transformation.” The side event, co-hosted by the University of Warwick and STOPAIDS, marked the global launch of the Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP)’s newest report: Paying the Costs of Connection.
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Sara (Meg) Davis, International Affairs