 Jul 0911:00 am - 11:45 am Network of Women Ministers and Leaders in ICT — Leadership Circle Lab | Gender-Responsive AI Standards: From Rhetoric to RealityThe international community is actively renegotiating the frameworks, standards, and institutions that will shape digital transformation for the next decade — and whether gender equality is embedded in that architecture, or added as an afterthought, is being decided right now. |
 Jul 0710:00 am - 10:45 am WSIS Forum 2026 | Fit for Whom? Sex-Stratified Data and the Integrity of High-Risk AIDrawing on three recent research papers, this session presents evidence of the cascade from male-default data to biased outputs across healthcare, criminal justice, and social care, then maps what needs to change in data standards, validation requirements, and governance frameworks. |
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Jul 069:00 am - 9:45 am WSIS Forum 2026 | Public Trust and AI Procurement: From Principles to PracticeDrawing on new research, this session introduces a public trust framework for AI procurement and maps concrete mechanisms — auditability, documentation, risk assessment — to embed human rights and transparency upstream, before systems are deployed. |
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Jul 062:00 pm - 2:45 pm WSIS Forum 2026 | Measuring What Matters: Embedding Gender Equality in AI Governance Through Gender-Specific IndicatorsThis session surfaces what current indicators miss and maps concrete governance entry points to embed gender-specific, actionable indicators — before standards are locked in. |
 Jun 222:00 pm - 3:00 pm Human Rights Council Side Event | From Rights to Architecture: Women, Girls, and the Governance of Artificial IntelligenceThis event convenes human rights and technical expertise to ask what regulatory architecture, accountability mechanisms, and feminist design practice are needed to close the implementation gap — before the UN Working Group’s landmark report on AI and gender equality goes to the Council. |
 Jun 183:00 pm - 4:00 pm Human Rights Council Side Event | HumRights-Bench: Can AI Understand Human Rights Law?Organized by AI & Equality by Women at the Table and Globethics, HumRights-Bench is the first scientific tool to measure whether AI models understand and apply human rights law. As large language models increasingly shape decisions affecting rights holders worldwide, Member States urgently need rigorous evaluation tools. Our results reveal consistent model failures — giving governments the concrete data needed to regulate AI responsibly. |
 May 22All Day AI & Equality Festival of Ideas 2026The AI & Equality Festival of Ideas will convene the people working with algorithms; linguists building language models for African languages, feminist scholars rewriting the benchmarks, digital rights lawyers fighting surveillance states, health researchers exposing algorithmic bias in clinical care, and organizers connecting the dots between AI, labor, climate, and indigenous land rights. |
 May 129:00 am - 3:00 pm Expert Dialogue on Addressing Technology-Facilitated Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Linked to TerrorismThe full-day meeting will convene experts from international and regional organizations, civil society, researchers, and technology networks to examine critical gaps in knowledge and policy related to technology-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence linked to terrorism. It aims to deepen understanding of the forms and impacts of such violence, including the connections between online and offline harm and the role of online gender-based hate in fostering pathways to violent extremism. |
 May 0710:15 am - 11:15 am RightsCon 2026: A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action: Mobilising for Feminist Tech Industry StandardsOrganized by A+ Alliance, Equality Now and UNFPA, we want to learn from the participants how activists, technologists, and policy makers across regions are already experimenting with “safety by design” in practice and what barriers they face when engaging platforms or regulators. |
 Apr 292:00 am - 3:30 am Espresso for Equality | Digital Justice and Artificial Intelligence: Embedding Gender Equality in Turbulent TimesThis session continues Espresso for Equality, a short, focused briefing format designed to keep IGC focal points informed on key developments at the intersection of gender equality and multilateral policy. |
