Children receive significantly less protection from the COVID-19 pandemic than adults. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the UN General Assembly on November 20, 1989, states that every child in the world has the right to grow up healthy and safely, to develop his or her potential, and to be listened to and taken seriously.

Collecting and sharing data: Corporations like Google and Facebook are under criticism. Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger calls for a supervisory committee like the International Atomic Energy Agency. Kath.ch takes up the topic in an article.

"Can new technologies save the climate and humanity? And how can the dividing tendencies caused by social media be stopped?" Editor Oliver Tanzer of the Austrian weekly DIE FURCHE interviewed Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger on these and other questions on the sidelines of the Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna last year.

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to much more frequent use of video conferences in our professional and private lives in order to communicate with each other and meet virtually. While on the one hand these technologies enable communication and togetherness, on the other hand they prove to be ethically unacceptable in many respects.

The recording of the Award Event #55 “Human Rights-Based Data-Based Systems” at last week’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) with the participation of Aaron Butler and Evelyne Tauchnitz is now available.

Human rights protect cultural, religious and ideological plurality and provide an ethical reference point where secular and religious ethics come together. Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger emphasizes the particularly urgent and great need for action from a human rights perspective in the area of flight and migration.

In his latest book, Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger takes a critical look at digitalization, automation, mechanization, robotization of society and the economy, and the use of artificial intelligence. Darius Meier, PhD student at the Institute for Social Ethics ISE, has written a review about the book in the journal for religions and society "Aufbruch".

In our time, the rapid technological progress lets robots become. Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger on the responsibility of human beings to shape the digital transformation by defining and enforcing ethical principles and legal standards.

The recording of Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger's contribution on "Data Driven Analytics in HR - Ethical Considerations" on the occasion of the webinar Data Driven 2021 is available.

On the occasion of the exhibition "Persecuted Christians" in the pastoral region of Sursee, Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger addresses the human right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion in the current article.