Human Rights Council Side Event

From Rights to Architecture: Women, Girls, and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence

23 June 2026 | 14:00–15:00 | Concordia 1, Palais des Nations

Organized by Women at the Table and the UN Special Procedures Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, with the Governments of Armenia, Chile, Costa Rica, Estonia, France, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, and the Republic of Korea

International human rights law already binds states to protect women and girls from AI-driven harm. So why aren’t these obligations translating into policy? This event convenes human rights and technical expertise to ask what regulatory architecture, accountability mechanisms, and feminist design practice are needed to close the implementation gap — before the UN Working Group’s landmark report on AI and gender equality goes to the Council.