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Sectors #

The contributors of the AI & Human Rights Index have identified the following sectors as responsible for both using AI to protect and advance this human right.

• ART: Arts and Culture
• COM: Media and Communication
• FIN: Financial Services
• REG: Regulatory and Oversight Bodies
• WORK: Employment and Labor

AI’s Potential Violations #

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AI’s Potential Benefits #

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Human Rights Instruments #

United Nations Charter (1945) #

1 U.N.T.S. XVI, U.N. Charter (June 26, 1945)

Preamble

to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the Dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and

to establish conditions under which Justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger Freedom,

to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and

to unite our strength to maintain international peace and Security, and

to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and

to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,

Chapter 1, Article 1

2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and Self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) #

G.A. Res. 2200A (XXI), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, U.N. Doc. A/6316 (1966), 999 U.N.T.S. 171 (Dec. 16, 1966)

Article 1

1. All peoples have the right of Self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.

3. The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of Self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) #

G.A. Res. 61/295, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, U.N. Doc. A/RES/61/295 (Sept. 13, 2007)

Article 3

Indigenous peoples have the right to Self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.