Neurotechnology and human rights
Background
In its resolution 51/3, the Human Rights Council requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a study in an accessible format, including an easy-to-read version, on the impact, opportunities and challenges of neurotechnology with regard to the promotion and protection of all human rights, including recommendations on how human rights opportunities, challenges and gaps arising from neurotechnology could be addressed by the Human Rights Council and its special procedures and subsidiary bodies in a coherent, holistic, inclusive and action-oriented manner, and to present the study to the Council at its fifty-seventh session.
In resolution 51/3, the Human Rights Council also requested the Advisory Committee, when preparing the above-mentioned study, to seek the views and inputs from, and to take into account the relevant work already done by, stakeholders, including Member States, international and regional organizations, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies, other relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes within their respective mandates, national human rights institutions, civil society, the private sector, medical and technical communities, academic institutions and other relevant stakeholders.
The Advisory Committee established a drafting group at its twenty-ninth session, held from 20 to 24 February 2023.
Drafting group
The current members of the drafting group are:
- Noor AL-JEHANI
- Nurah ALAMRO
- Buhm-Suk BAEK
- Milena COSTAS TRASCASAS (Rapporteur)
- Jewel MAJOR
- Ajai MALHOTRA
- Javier PALUMNO
- Vasilka SANCIN
- Patrycja SASNAL
- Dheerujlall SEETULSINGH
- Vassilis TZEVELEKOS (Chair)
- Catherine VAN DE HEYNING
- Frans VILJOEN
- Yue ZHANG
Inputs received
The Advisory Committee has taken note and is grateful for all the replies received, including individual submissions. For practical reasons, only those that could be attributed to an institution/researcher in the field were published on this web page. For the same reason, not all replies received from civil society organizations are published on this web page.
Member States
NHRIs
- Argentina: Defensoría del Pueblo
- Australia: Australian Human Rights Commission
- Mexico: Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos
Non-governmental organizations and Civil Society Organizations
- iCure Health International
- International Disability Alliance
- Neurorights Foundation
- OneGoal Initiative for Governance
- O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and Ríos-Rivers
- X Reality Safety Intelligence (XRSI)
Academia
- Dr. Bublitz
- Grupo Académico Interdisciplinar de Neurociencia Y Derecho
- Marta Diogo
- Dr. Nita Farahany
- Contribution by individuals participating on a voluntary basis in the IEEE Brain Neuroethics Subcommittee and IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) P7700 Working group
- Dr. Sjors Ligthart
- Dr. Sjors Ligthart, Prof. dr. Antoine Buyse, Dr. Emma Dore-Horgan, Vera Tesink MA, MSc, Naomi van de Pol LLM and Prof. dr. Gerben Meynen
- Red Internacional de Investigación sobre Neuroderecho y Derechos Humanos
- Dr. Ienca