 Jul 074:00 pm - 4:45 pm WSIS Forum 2026 | Enhancing CEDAW Accountability through AI Governance and Tech Value ChainsOrganized by CEDAW |
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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. |
 Jul 063:00 pm - 6:00 pm United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance | Thematic discussion 1: AI opportunities and implicationsThe AI Dialogue is the United Nations platform where all governments and stakeholders will convene to discuss international cooperation, share best practices and lessons learned, and facilitate open, transparent and inclusive discussions on artificial intelligence governance. For the first time, every country has a seat at the table of AI – to have the meaningful conversation the world needs. |
 Jul 052:00 pm - 5:00 pm Feminist AI Innovation from the Global South: From Community to Global Governance CommitmentsInclusive AI Research Network (formerly the Feminist AI Research Network FAIR) and the Gender in Digital Coalition, are a global feminist coalition that works to promote and ensure intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in global digital governance frameworks. |
 Jun 308:30 am - 9:30 am Digital International Geneva thematic session on HumRights-BenchCampus Biotech, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva |
 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. |
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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. |
