Artificial Intelligence and environmental racism: initial reflections 192 In the same way, application of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination’s prohibition on racial discrimination should be pursued alongside the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (art 1), the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (art 2) and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (art 2), which similarly prohibit or condemn direct and indirect forms of discrimination. It is important to recall that all human rights are indivisible and interdependent, which means that violation of a civil and political right (such as privacy or non-discrimination) might also result in a violation of the right to access to an economic, social, cultural, and environmental right (such as access to a health environment). Likewise, the international human rights framework and the specific rights guaranteed under it are applicable in the context of AI systems Overall, human rights system offers legally enforceable principles and specific courts, commissions, and institutions where individuals can raise human rights and associated environmental issues with the legitimate expectation of securing some relief. In this sense, International Human Rights play an important role in identifying and addressing the social impacts of artificial intelligence and ensuring accountability for these harms Potential contributions do not merely result from the enforcement of international treaties and domestic law and manifest themselves in court decisions; rather, the framework should be understood comprehensively as a combination of legal remedies, moral justification, and political analysis that inform one another (Bakner, 2023). Different human rights mechanisms have closely monitored the impact of AI on human rights Various United Nations Human Rights Council reports address how these technologies affect a broad spectrum of human rights, including racial equality and non-discrimination principles under international human rights law (United Nations, 2020). Those principles are codified in all core’s human rights treaties and have achieved the status of a peremptory norm with obligation erga omnes. The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia, and related intolerance, re-
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