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Handbook on Human Rights and Artificial Intelligence

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  • Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)12 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on children’s rights and social services friendly to children and families
  • Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the risk of computer-assisted or artificial intelligence enabled decision-making in the field of the social safety net, 2021 
  • Council of Europe, Children rights and social services, Report on the implementation of the Council of Europe Recommendation on children’s rights and social services friendly to children and families, 2016
  • Ivana Bartoletti and Raphaële Xenidis, Council of Europe, Study on the impact of artificial intelligence systems, their potential for promoting equality, including gender equality, and the risks they may cause in relation to non-discrimination, GEC/CDADI Study, 2023
  • The Netherlands – Opinion on the legal protection of citizens, CDL-AD(2021)031, 2021
  • Council of Europe, Social Security as a human right, Human Rights Files No. 23, 2007
  • OECD Artificial Intelligence Papers, AI and the future of social protection in OECD countries, No. 42, 2025
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Report on the privatization of public services, A/73/396, 26 September 2018
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Report on the “digital welfare state”, A/74/493, 11 October 2019
  • Amnesty International, Xenophobic Machines: Discrimination through unregulated use of algorithms in the Dutch childcare benefits scandal, 2021

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