Rabat, 16 December 2025 – Ms. Amina Bouayach, Chairperson of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) and of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), opened this morning the proceedings of the 7th Congress of the Network of Francophone National Human Rights Institutions, of which the CNDH is a member. The congress is taking place in Rabat from December 16 to 17.

During a session on human rights and artificial intelligence, Ms. Bouayach emphasized that the dominance of major corporations and their decisions regarding the design, training, and operation of technological systems can sometimes tip the balance in favor of specific interests. “This risks undermining the rights of large segments of the population and threatens the very essence of the human rights system,” she warned. Protecting human rights and human dignity, she added, “is a universal priority that requires stronger, broader, and more effective international advocacy.”

Ms. Bouayach stressed the urgent need to strengthen global advocacy efforts to ensure fair and equitable access to advanced technologies, particularly for developing countries and those of the Global South. “Technology and artificial intelligence systems can make a meaningful contribution to the realization of fundamental rights for vulnerable groups who are in urgent need of access to such tools, especially in relation to the right to health and the right to education,” she noted. “Yet these technologies remain largely inaccessible in most developing countries and Global South nations, particularly across Africa.”

She highlighted that the negative consequences of AI systems transcend national borders. Their impacts, according to the CNDH Chairperson, are universal in nature and pose threats to fundamental rights everywhere. “The protection of rights and freedoms must therefore also be universal,” she emphasized, “without distinction between European and African regions, or between Asian and American regions.”

“Our role as national human rights institutions working within regional networks (African, European, American, Asian, Arab, and Francophone) and united within a global alliance comprising institutions from 120 countries, which I have the honor to chair, is essential in the context of this international advocacy to protect human dignity and the universal rights threatened by these systems,” Ms. Amina Bouayach concluded.
 

Universal threats.
Universal rights.
Universal protection, without exclusion, without discrimination, and with shared responsibility.