Free · a global community in 59 countries
The AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox is a free, six-stage method that runs alongside the AI lifecycle, turning a human rights-based approach into concrete checks teams can apply to their own systems.
Built in collaboration with EPFL and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
THE TOOLS
Everything here is built to be used, not admired. Start with the two at the core of the method.
HRIA Workbook
Working through human rights risk, stage by stage.
A six-stage Human Rights Impact Assessment that runs alongside the AI lifecycle, pairing documentation with reflection questions at every step.
The AI Lifecycle
Finding where rights enter the build.
The human rights-based approach mapped onto each phase of development, from objective-setting to deployment and audit.
Why human rights, not ethics
Choosing law you can act on.
A human rights-based approach gives teams a shared, agreed starting point that voluntary ethics principles cannot.
HumRights-Benchmark
Testing whether AI can reason about rights.
The first expert-validated benchmark for human rights reasoning in AI. Frontier models scored near chance.
Latin American Toolbox
Adapting the method across Latin America.
Born from the AI & Equality course and built with CENIA and the University of Chile as the first free course of its kind in the region. (In Spanish.)
The Course
Learning the foundations, free and evergreen.
The original five-module course on a human rights-based approach to AI, with a certificate from the Sorbonne Centre for AI.
A growing library of thinking on the hardest questions
In May 2026 the community held its inaugural Festival of Ideas: a free, global, one-day gathering across every time zone, with sessions led by partners on five continents, Masakhane, Derechos Digitales, Connected By Data, Digital Futures Lab, NYU Peace AI, the Global Center on AI Governance, and the Asian Research Group for Social and Inclusive Innovation and Economic Development.
The talks now sit alongside our publications and commentaries to OHCHR, UNESCO and others as a standing body of work.
Validated where it counts
Developed in collaboration with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Presented and validated at the 2024 SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) Conference, and cited in the Global Partnership on AI’s 2024 report.
Truly global, truly multidisciplinary
A community of researchers, technologists, lawyers and organisers across 59 countries and six continents, with toolboxes adapted for Africa and Latin America and a method shaped by computer science, human rights law and social science together.
Start on Monday morning
The whole toolbox is free. Pick the tool that fits where you are in the build, and put a human rights-based approach to work on your own system.