IGF 2025: Shaping Global AI Governance Through Multistakeholder Action

Join the FOC’s Task Force on AI & Human Rights for the following IGF Open Forum taking place in Workshop Room 4 / Online on Wednesday, 25 June from 10.45 – 11.45 CEST.

Session Description:

This session launches the 2025 Joint Statement on AI and Human Rights, which reaffirms the need for international AI governance to be grounded in international human rights law and developed through inclusive, multistakeholder processes. As AI systems are increasingly used in ways that suppress dissent, enable arbitrary surveillance, amplify discrimination, and erode democratic participation, the statement highlights the urgent need to embed human rights protections throughout the entire AI lifecycle, from design and development to deployment and oversight. The session will explore how global governance efforts can uphold these principles and advance a human-centric, accountable, and rights-respecting approach to AI.

Moderator: Zach Lampell, Senior Legal Advisor & Coordinator, Digital Rights, ICNL

Opening remarks: Ernst Noorman, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs, the Netherlands

Speakers:

• Maria Adebahr, Director for Cyber Foreign and Security Policy, Germany
• Divine Selase Agbeti, Director-General, Cyber Security Authority of Ghana
• Erica Moret, Director UN & International Organisations, Microsoft

Closing remarks: Rasmus Lumi, Director General, Department of International Organisations and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia