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Human Rights & Web Standards?
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Event details

Date:
– Japan Standard Time
Status:
Tentative
Location:
R10
Participants:
Daniel Appelquist, Hidde de Vries, Simone Onofri
Big meeting:
TPAC 2025 (Calendar)

At the W3C’s Advisory Committee meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, last year, Mitsuo Ochi, the president of Hiroshima University, challenged W3C to “take proactive actions towards realizing a peaceful future.”

Tim Engelhardt from the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, while acknowledging the reference to human rights in the Ethical Web Principles, likewise challenged W3C to put people and their rights at the center of processes, saying “standard setting organizations and their participants, should commit to the application of human rights, using human rights methodologies”.

More recently, the UN OHCHR has run a series of workshops involving standards bodies, one of which I did a write-up of here: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2025Jul/att-0280/Workshop_Report__Advancing_Human_Rights-Aligned_Standard-Setting.pdf.

We have also discussed this topic in the Advisory Board.

Agenda

Chairs:
Simone Onofri, Daniel Appelquist, Hidde de Vries

Description:
At the W3C’s Advisory Committee meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, last year, Mitsuo Ochi, the president of Hiroshima University, challenged W3C to “take proactive actions towards realizing a peaceful future.”

Tim Engelhardt from the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, while acknowledging the reference to human rights in the Ethical Web Principles, likewise challenged W3C to put people and their rights at the center of processes, saying “standard setting organizations and their participants, should commit to the application of human rights, using human rights methodologies”.

More recently, the UN OHCHR has run a series of workshops involving standards bodies, one of which I did a write-up of here: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2025Jul/att-0280/Workshop_Report__Advancing_Human_Rights-Aligned_Standard-Setting.pdf.

We have also discussed this topic in the Advisory Board.

Goal(s):
have an open discussion

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