National Human Rights Commission of India

At the time, I was very interested in the work of the UN.

I had worked in a couple of volunteered for a couple of UN projects and the National Human Rights Commission.

So yeah, so then Ireland happened.

And then I when I came back, it was that kind of that happens after college after university what now it felt like of course the UN would be waiting for me but it wasn't yeah

And this is the part where the past refuses to stay past.

Manual scavenging was banned in India by the 1993 Act, but the National Human Rights Commission observed in 2021 that eradication is far from over.

Government data shows 971 people died cleaning sewers and septic tanks between 1993 and 2021.

North Korea still uses night soil as fertilizer due to shortages.

Morocco's election is testing whether established parliamentary politics can build a stronger institutional connection with a generation that remains underrepresented in formal electoral participation.

For further information, see Government of Morocco, Telquel, and Morocco's National Human Rights Council.

Turkey links its family policy to a nationwide LGBTQ+ enforcement campaign.

Turkey has launched investigations involving one hundred and sixty-two suspects, nine associations, and thirteen businesses across fifteen provinces, with authorities explicitly linking the operations to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's family and population decade.

In fact, I argue that they're not doing anything about.

The National Human Rights Commission has said that they have taken cognizance of reports alleging that paid ads on Meta's platform promote or facilitate access to CSAM.

I don't know what taking cognizance means, but this is pretty weak action from a government agency.

And the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights summoned Meta India's heads.

Uh, we know that there is a safe harbor clause in the IT law, uh, which gives, uh, intermediaries a protection, uh, from liability for what the users post on their, uh, website.

But after our investigation, uh, the National Human Rights Commission has actually issued a notice to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the MeitY Ministry asking whether, given all the services that a company like Meta provides, uh, to advertisers, it should be considered as a publisher vis-a-vis an intermediary, and therefore have different, uh, obligations that it needs to meet in the context of, uh, child sexual abuse material.

I wanna understand the process of how algorithms work, because you did mention that you started another account.

Uh, so what is it that they're tracking? Is it, like, when you pause on a reel, uh, is it only when you search for something in particular, when you click on something? How does it take you from where you start to putting out these ads?