Media Service Office informs that on the day 8 – 9 June in the Sejm In Room 412 bud. U a seminar will be held "Human rights in the digital age. Artificial intelligence and social media: an chance or a threat to young people”, organised by Polish Interparliamentary Union Group in cooperation with Interparliamentary Union.
The event will be attended by representatives of the geopolitical group 12 Plus of the Interparliamentary Union, which brings together 47 democratic European countries and selected non-European countries (such as Australia), which share common values.
The gathering besides includes representatives of NGOs dealing with the subject. The aim of the seminar is to make a platform for an in-depth debate on the challenges that the dynamic improvement of digital technologies - in peculiar artificial intelligence and social media - puts before the human rights protection system, with peculiar emphasis on the situation of children and young people.
press programme:
8 June 2026 (Monday)
10:00 beginning of the conference
Welcome of guests by Deputy talker of the Sejm, Mr Simon Holovnia (Poland), Vice-President of the IPU, Senator Gabriela Morawska-Stanetska (Poland), president of the 12 Plus Group of MP Laurent Wehrli (Switzerland) and president of the Office of IPU Parliamentarians, Cynthia Lopez Castro
10:25Speech by Andy Filip – the fresh Secretary General of the IPU
10:30Keynote 1: Obligation of States to defend minors against violence, cruelty and immorality
Speaker: Emilio Puccio– Secretary-General of the Interparty Group on Children's Rights in the European Parliament
10:45–12:45 Panel I: Moderator: MP Kinga Gajewska (Poland)
Constitutional and global grounds for protecting children against corruption on the Internet
Panelists: Emilio Puccio, MP Lesia Vasilenko (Ukraine), MP João Pedro Louro (Portugal), Senator Magdalena Kochan (Poland), Senator Adam Bodnar (Poland)
12:55 am household photograph (Main Hol Bud. C)
14:45–15:00 Keynote 2: Global trends in limiting children's access to social media
Speaker: Sharon Claydon – Vice-President of the home of Representatives
15:00–17:00 Panel II: Fighting cyber-violence and gender-based force online. Prohibition of social media for children – where is the border?
Moderator: Member of Monika Rosa (Poland)
Panelists: MemberElisa Vigil (Parliament of Madrid, Spain), Marta Puciłowska-Schielmann (Institute of Digital Citizenship), Alex Kriebitz, AI Policy Consultant (IPU)
9 June 2026 (Tuesday)
10:00 Keynote 3: AI and human rights – fresh challenges for parliaments. hazard systems, manipulation, transparency, political work
Speaker: Mr Manuel Tender (Portugal)
10:15–12:45 Panel III: AI and human rights – from algorithmic discrimination to surveillance
Moderator: Grzegorz Napieralski (Poland)
Panelists: Wojciech Klicki (Panoptykon Foundation),Alex Read, Expert (IPU)
2:30–15:00 Summary of the conference and conclusion
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