New global Privacy and Human Rights Award honours leadership in privacy and other fundamental rights [FR] [ES]
June 2024
The Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) is launching a new international award, in collaboration with Access Now, the global human rights organization, to celebrate exemplary work to protect and promote privacy and other fundamental rights.
The new Privacy and Human Rights Award, developed by the GPA’s Data Protection and Other Rights and Freedoms Working Group, will recognize organizations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership or initiative at the international, state, or regional level in the fields of privacy or data protection as well as human rights.
Nominations for the award are now open. To be eligible, organizations must have demonstrated leadership, for example, through:
- The development of a new initiative or project which sheds light on the relationship between privacy and other fundamental rights.
- The delivery of advocacy work at the state or regional level to highlight privacy-related issues in connection with the expression of other fundamental rights.
- The development of new tools or resources to assist communities with understanding their privacy rights in relation to other fundamental rights.
- The undertaking of research and reporting of exceptional quality and depth that focuses on the intersection of privacy, data protection and other fundamental rights.
The inaugural Privacy and Human Rights Award will be presented at Access Now’s summit on human rights in the digital age, RightsCon, in Taipei, Taiwan in February 2025.
Quotes
“The Privacy and Human Rights Award embodies the promotion of privacy and other human rights, recognizing privacy and personal data protection as the cornerstone for fostering trust, certainty, and as an enabling right for other human rights, particularly within the current digital landscape in which we are all deeply immersed.”
Commissioner Josefina Román Vergara, on behalf of the Board of the Mexico’s National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection, Chair of the Global Privacy Assembly
“It is exciting to recognize important work that supports the fundamental right to privacy and other human rights. Protecting privacy is vital because it underpins so many other fundamental rights, such as democratic rights and the right to be free from discrimination.”
Philippe Dufresne, Chair of the Global Privacy Assembly’s Data Protection and Other Rights and Freedoms Working Group and Privacy Commissioner of Canada
“Our privacy — individually and collectively — is foundational for human rights in the digital age, and we must protect it. The GPA’s inaugural Privacy and Human Rights Award gives civil society the opportunity to collectively recognize, and fight to uphold, people’s privacy — at all levels, in all countries. Access Now is eager to provide a platform at RightsCon for this pressing work to defend and extend the digital rights of all.”
Nikki Gladstone, RightsCon Director, Access Now
Further information on the award:
Privacy and Human Rights Award
Nominate an organization using this link to the nomination form. The form is also available in French and in Spanish.
For general and media enquiries, please contact the GPA Secretariat: secretariat@globalprivacyassembly.org