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title: "Recommendations and Resources"
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# Recommendations and Resources

## Checklist

- Do I know what laws apply to my work?
- Do I know what policies apply to my work?
- Have I read relevant policies on ethical research?
- Have I asked the Policy and Governance teams at my organisation or institution for advice or support?
- Does my work respect and protect human rights?
- Does my work fulfil human rights?

## Further reading
- [Artificial Intelligence: What’s Human Rights Got To Do With It?](https://points.datasociety.net/artificial-intelligence-whats-human-rights-got-to-do-with-it-4622ec1566d5)  (_Blog post by Christiaan van Veen and Corinne Cath_)
- [The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Putting Human Rights at the Heart of the Design, Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence](https://hrbdt.ac.uk/the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-at-70-putting-human-rights-at-the-heart-of-the-design-development-and-deployment-of-artificial-intelligence/) (_The Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, University of Essex, UK_)
- [Algorithms and Human Rights - Study on the human rights dimension of automated data processing techniques and possible regulatory implications](https://rm.coe.int/algorithms-and-human-rights-en-rev/16807956b5) (_Council of Europe_)
- [Data Feminism](https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/) (_book by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein_)
- [Article 8: Respect for your private and family life](https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/human-rights-act/article-8-respect-your-private-and-family-life) (_UK Equality and Human Rights Commission_)
- General Comment No. 16 Article 17 (The right to respect of privacy, family, home and correspondence, and protection of honour and reputation) 1988 (HRI/GEN/1/Rev9) (_UN Human Rights Committee_)
- [Toonen v Australia](https://remedy.org.au/cases/24/) (_Summary of successful case brought by Nicholas Toonen against the criminalisation of homosexual sex in Tasmania in 1994_)
