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
A Call for Social Responsibility: Protecting Our Data and Each Other’s Privacy
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.
Countering Misinformation
Jack Wilson, author of the Countering Misinformation module, describes what led him to collaborate with young people in DHRP to create the module.
Reflections on the Launch of the DHRP “Paying the Costs of Connection” Report at WHA Side Event
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.
Introducing the Digital Rights Advisory Council (DRAC)
The Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP) is proud to introduce our Digital Rights Advisory Council (DRAC), a multidisciplinary expert group that provides strategic guidance on human rights in digital governance.
Introducing Fundación Karisma: The newest member of the DHRP Consortium
We are excited to welcome Fundación Karisma, a civil society organisation based in Colombia, as the newest member of the Digital Health and Rights Project.
Paying the costs of connection: Online launch
Co-created with over 300 young adults from rural, urban and peri-urban Kenya, Ghana, Vietnam and Colombia, this report shares insights into how marginalised young adults are paying the costs of connecting to health online.