This event features a discussion with Prof. Dorothy Estrada-Tanck (University of Murcia & UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls).
In June of 2026, the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls will present its next report to the Human Rights Council on the digital space and artificial intelligence’s existing and potential impact on substantive gender equality. AI is creating new growth opportunities, driving innovation, and reshaping modes of expression, and it holds the potential to advance human rights and promote equality if developed and deployed responsibly. At the same time, AI poses significant challenges to the human rights of women and girls. It has facilitated—and may continue to facilitate—violations of rights to privacy, health, expression, and assembly, among others, and may also cause significant economic disruption that disproportionately affects women and girls.
In the report, the Working Group will analyze existing approaches to the regulation, development, use, and transfer of AI at national, regional, and international levels through a gendered lens. The report will build on the Working Group’s understanding of how AI intersects with other forms of digital technologies already impacting women and girls, and make recommendations to States, international organizations, the United Nations, and the private sector—especially technology companies—in order to harness AI’s capacity to promote human rights and substantive gender equality and redress the gendered impacts of AI that undermine women’s and girls’ rights.
Speaker bio
We are delighted to help celebrate the EUI’s 50th anniversary by welcoming back one of its distinguished alumnae.
Dorothy Estrada-Tanck is a member and former Chair of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls since November 2020. She is Tenured Professor of Public International Law and Coordinator of the Legal Clinic at the Faculty of Law of University of Murcia, Spain. She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute (Italy), an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Law Degree from Escuela Libre de Derecho (Mexico). Dorothy enjoys more than 15 years of academic and professional experience in Mexico, Spain, Italy, Canada and the US, including in government, State bodies, NGOs, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, McGill University and the Human Rights Program of Harvard Law School. She has done research in UN, European and national projects, and published widely on international human rights law, gender equality, human security, migration and refugee law, rights of persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, socioeconomic justice, business corporations and human rights, and regularly holds consultations with public and civil society stakeholders and speaks at international events and dissemination sources. As former Working Group Chair she visited Afghanistan in May 2023, addressing gender apartheid against women and girls.
Organisers and funding:
This event is organised as part of the FJP-CEE - Feminist judgments in Central and Eastern Europe project supported by the EUI Widening Europe Programme, with the support of the Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group.
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