Blockchain for Human Rights

 

Blockchain for Human Rights raises awareness on the issues of lack of legal identification and statelessness. The initiative promotes a global partnership of different actors towards the adoption of inclusive digital IDs, encouraging blockchain-based solutions for overcoming discriminatory barriers inherent in the current system of identity documentation issuance and maintenance. 

The initiative focuses on advocacy work, aiming to connect and influence blockchain actors, state actors, international organisations, academia, NGOs, and other civil society actors. In the long term, Blockchain for Human Rights aims to bring together these actors and the affected communities to test blockchain's value-add to the world, while emphasizing responsible use of the new technology. There is an urgent need for a more equitable and decentralised form of digital ID as a complimentary alternative to the traditional forms of identification based on state-actor absolute monopoly. After all, access to identification means access to the exercise of human rights.