On July 1, the X Annual Summer School on Human Rights “Digital Space and Human Rights” started. The summer school is held within the framework of the project of the interuniversity Master's program "International Protection of Human Rights", successfully implemented by the Consortium of Russian Universities with the support of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The organizer of the Summer School is the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovleva. This year, for the first time, the school is being held in an online format, which has significantly expanded the circle of students - more than 200 people have registered to participate in the school, including students from partner universities in the European-Asian Law University Consortium.

On the first day of school, students were greeted by: Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Nikolaevna Moskalkova, first vice-rector of USLU named after V.F. Yakovleva Maxim Vladimirovich Goncharov, Head of the Department of International Law of the People's Friendship University named after P. Lumumba Aslan Huseinovich Abashidze and Rashid Aluash, responsible for the joint program of the Russian Federation and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The first day's events were moderated by the head of the Department of International Law at Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovleva Lev Aleksandrovich Lazutin.

With a welcoming speech from T.N. Moskaleva to the participants of the X Summer School on Human Rights “Digital Space and Human Rights” can be found here.

After the welcoming remarks, Professor Abashidze delivered a plenary lecture to the audience. He examined the benefits and threats to human personality in the modern digital era in the context of special international regulators, primarily developed by bodies and institutions of the UN system. Aslan Huseinovich also dwelled on modern documents of the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, of which he is a member, affecting standards in the field of human rights in the digital age.

The areas of work of UN agencies in the context of the use of modern digital technologies and challenges were presented to school students as part of a thematic discussion with the participation of representatives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Health Organization , Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who spoke, among other things, about individual programs related to the use of new technologies in realizing the right to education, the right to health and the right to food.

Summer school will continue for three more days. Listeners will enjoy interesting lectures and practical exercises on the SDGs, human rights and digital technologies.

Source: website of the Ural State Law University named after V. F. Yakovlev