1. Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew and Yuval Shany, ‘The 2024 AU Common Position on the Application of International Law in the Cyberspace:

Some Implications for the Development of Digital Human Rights’ EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law (November 15, 2024).
Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew and Yuval Shany analyse the African Union's (AU) adoption of the Common African Position (CAP) on international law in cyberspace. The authors focus on the CAP’s approach to digital human rights, including how existing human rights apply online, the potential development of new digital rights, and the obligations of both states and private companies in protecting these rights. The authors note that the CAP missed the opportunity to lead in defining new .

digital rights, clarifying extraterritorial obligations, and emphasising African communal values in cyberspace governance. Read the full post here.

2. Yuval Shany, ‘A Right to a Human-to-Human Interaction’  Institute for AI Ethics, University of Oxford blog, (November 7, 2024).

Yuval Shany examines the emerging rights not to be subjected to automated decisions and to be notified when interacting with AI system, which already appear in certain AI regulatory frameworks, may be stepping stones on a future path towards developing a new and broader right to human-to-human interaction. The author notes that the right to a human-to-human interaction implicates other human rights such as the right to dignity. Read the full post here.