Inside the United Nations’ Water Week
Over 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and around 4.2 billion people–more than half of the world's population–experience severe water scarcity for at least one month per year.
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Can the U.S. and Europe Agree on Rules for AI?
As EU and U.S. leaders meet in Washington at a joint Trade and Technology Council, there is great need for a proposed “transatlantic accord on artificial intelligence.” But the two sides have differing agendas, and...
Biden Proclaims AI Bill of Rights (Kinda/Sorta)
As AI assumes more and more previously human tasks, ethicists, futurists, and legal minds are getting apoplectic, scurrying to get out ahead of the issues.
Fossil Fuels Are a Threat to National Security
The youth movement urges President Biden to act—with or without Congress.
We Need to Change the Abortion Rights Narrative
Banning abortion pushes the U.S. towards the path of becoming a third rate power, with uneducated, unemployable citizens whose lives will need to be subsidized by government dollars.
Beyond the Trump Decision: Facebook’s Human Rights Problem
If we value our rights, we need to build durable, enforceable legal frameworks that can rein in demagogues and big tech alike.
Why Everything Requires “Whole of Society” Solutions
“It will require all of us to work together–and harness tech–to solve our many complex challenges.” It’s on all of us to come up with the kind of multi-stakeholder, interconnected, multi-faceted solutions we need.
One Human Rights Campaign’s Social Media Struggles
My Stealthy Freedom is an Iranian women’s rights campaign against compulsory hijab laws. It is a thorn in the side of the Islamic Republic and has been the victim of sustained cyberattacks, hoaxes, misinformation and...
Davos 2015: NYU’s Michael Posner on Human Rights and Global Business
Michael Posner of NYU Stern joins Hub Culture at the World Economic Forum Davos 2015. On the two-year anniversary of the Bangladesh factory disaster, Posner shares his learnings on the role of global business in...