Human Rights and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism

An ICT4Peace Note to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) by a Sanjana Hattotuwa

Advisory ICT, Activities, Policy Research ICT, Responding to/preventing Violent Extremism using ICTs and the Internet, ICTs for the prevention of mass atrocity crimes, ICTs and Human Rights Protection

16. February 2016

Note to the UN OHCHR: Human Rights and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism. By Sanjana Hattotuwa.

The ICT4Peace Foundation thanks the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the invitation to write to it regarding best practices and lessons learned on how protecting and promoting human rights contribute to preventing and countering violent extremism. Our submission, in line with the Foundation’s mission, will be anchored to technologies that can be adapted and adopted in countering violent extremism (CVE). Our submission will also highlight the roles and responsibilities of governments and civil society in this regard.

Geneva 16 February 2016