Join UNSW's Australian Human Rights Institute, Human Rights Watch, and the Human Technology Institute at UTS for a panel discussion about children's rights and artificial intelligence.
Moderated by Human Rights Watch Australia Director Daniela Gavshon, the panel will feature leading global experts on technology, privacy and children's rights, including Australian Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind, UNSW Associate Professor Noam Peleg, UTS Human Technology Institute co-director Professor Edward Santow and Human Rights Watch researcher Hye Jung Han.
Carly Kind has been Australia's Privacy Commissioner since February 2024. She has expertise in data protection; AI policy, practice and governance; privacy; and technology law and policy.
Ms Kind has held the role of inaugural Director of the London-based Ada Lovelace Institute since 2019. Between 2015 and 2019 she was an independent consultant to a number of human rights organisations, trusts and foundations, international organisations and the private sector. She has provided advice on legal, ethical and practical issues at the intersection of technology and human rights.
Hye Jung Han is a researcher and advocate in the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, where she specialises on children’s rights and technology.
Before joining Human Rights Watch, she worked at UNICEF, where she advised teams across the world on the ethical use of data and technologies to deliver assistance to the world’s most vulnerable children. She has also worked to deliver humanitarian aid to children and families with UNICEF South Sudan and with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan, and was seconded to the World Food Programme to support cross-border negotiations.
She holds a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University and a dual M.A. in conflict management and international economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Noam Peleg is a Senior Lecturer and Director – Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Faculty of Law and Justice. Noam's work in international children’s rights law, human rights law, childhood studies, and family law. His latest research has focused on questions of identity, development, paternalism and childhood. His book ‘The Child’s Right to Development’ was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. Together with the Diplomacy Training Programme (DTP) and Youth Law Australia Noam has established the “Monitoring Children’s Rights Capacity Building Programme’ and he is a board member of the DTP Since 2023. Noam has been on the editorial board of the International Journal of Children’s Rights since 2013 and is the Journal’s Book Review Editor since 2018. In 2020 he was Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School (NYC). Before moving to academia, Noam practiced law in several human rights NGOs.
Edward Santow is the Director - Policy & Governance at the Human Technology Institute, and Industry Professor - Responsible Technology at the University of Technology Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
From 2016-2021, he was Australia's Human Rights Commissioner, where he led the Commission's work on AI & new technology; refugees and migration; human rights issues affecting LGBTIQ+ people; national security; and implementing the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture.
Daniela Gavshon is the Australia director at Human Rights Watch. She leads the organisation’s engagement with the Australian government on foreign and domestic policy.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she spent ten years working at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre where she founded the Truth and Accountability program. There, she led human rights and war crimes investigations and a landmark project mapping laws and policies affecting First Nations people in Australia.
From 2009-2012, Daniela was the Solomon Islands Head of Office for the International Center for Transitional Justice where she advised and supported the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In addition, Daniela has held positions in the Australian government foreign aid portfolio and with UN Women working on women, peace and security.
She is an adjunct lecturer at UNSW, the Secretary of the International Bar Association’s War Crimes Committee, and is on the Advisory Committee of UNSW's Australian Human Rights Institute.
