Human rights are now being considered in many fields of work including science and technology. This situation hopefully arose from lessons learned in the grievous mistakes of using science and technology in order to justify discrimination against sectors of society such as the case of eugenics policy, or suppress freedoms.
With human rights as standard, developments in science and technology consider their impact on people and the environment. Science and technology provide tools and systems that help realize human rights and also tools to detect human rights violations and abuse (positive impact).
Much has been written about the positive and negative impacts of information and communication technology on human rights. The local to global reach of social media caused serious damage to those whose rights were violated as much as supported people in deciding on what to do with local and national issues.
There is a need to promote the use of science and technology in improving the lives of people and realizing their human rights. At the same time, there is a need to prevent the use of science and technology against human rights.