All Posts in #human rights
Lender Center Student Fellows Researching Social Justice Implications of Artificial Intelligence Weaponry
These days, it’s hard to go anywhere without encountering artificial intelligence (AI). Predictive text offers to finish our web searches and our text messages. AI learning-based software can produce everything from research papers to poetry, solving complex math equations to…
Lender Faculty Fellow Bhan Examining Social Justice Implications of Artificial Intelligence Weaponry
How do artificial intelligence weapons systems transform war and surveillance activities and accentuate the social and political vulnerabilities of humans to violence? That is the question Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public…
Plan targeting homeless in NYC subway stations misses the bigger issue. Housing needs to be a human right
Reporters looking for insight about the new safety plan announced by New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul that focuses on homeless people using stations as shelter, please see insight from Syracuse University researcher Gretchen…
“Olympic Sponsors Face Human Rights Dilemma”
Rick Burton, David B. Falk Endowed Professor of Sport Management in the Falk College, was interviewed for the NTD story “Olympic Sponsors Face Human Rights Dilemma.” Burton, an expert on sports management and former chief marketing officer for the 2008…
“UN panel warns that ‘well-known global brands’ may be linked to Xinjiang human rights abuses”
Corri Zoli, research assistant professor of political science in the Maxwell School and director of research in the Institute for Security Policy and Law, was quoted in the South China Morning Post article “UN panel warns that ‘well-known global brands’…
“Isn’t Freedom From Police Brutality a Human Right?”
Horace Campbell, professor of political science and African Americans studies in the Maxwell School, was quoted by LA Progressive for the story “Isn’t Freedom From Police Brutality a Human Right?” Campbell, an activist and scholar for over 40 years, says…
“What does progress mean to you?”
Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment, was quoted in the Technology Review story “What does progress mean to you?” Sultana, who studies human rights and citizenship, comments on what exactly the term “progress” means to her as…