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Our focus / Human rights

Dignity, in practice.

Rights need institutions that listen, decisions people can challenge, and remedies that reach those harmed.

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A right must survive a decision.

A right that cannot be understood, invoked, defended, or enforced is an aspiration, not yet a protection.

A public system can promise equal treatment and still leave a person unable to understand a refusal, correct a record or recover a lost service. Rights become dependable through the details of administration: who exercises power, which evidence is used, how reasons are explained and who can require repair. Our proposed agenda follows that chain, including people who cannot begin a complaint.

Research & proposal stage. No current grants, funded partnerships or service delivery are claimed.

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Different lives. Equal standing.

Five distinct supports carry one common lintel. Their forms remain different; their standing is shared. The study reflects a rights framework that protects difference while holding every institution to a common floor of dignity.

New in the policy library · October 2026

The HUMAN Act.

A proposed framework connecting care, learning, work and community with autonomy, privacy and accountable technology. Read all 300 sections with the Foundation’s legal, fiscal and implementation analysis.

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The proposed next chapter

Make protection usable.

The next work would examine the full route from a public decision to effective review and repair. A right on paper is the starting point.

A remedy matters when it changes what happens next.

Priorities for development
01

Make decisions contestable

Opaque administrative and automated processes can conceal mistakes and leave people unsure who is responsible.

Proposed work

Develop a decision record linking lawful authority, evidence, understandable reasons and a reviewer empowered to correct the outcome. Rehearse its use with fictional cases before considering real records.

What we would measure

Comprehension, time to effective review and erroneous adverse decisions, including sampled cases without an appeal. A low appeal rate may hide an inaccessible process.

02

Build a route to justice

Cost, disability, language and fear can make a formal remedy impossible to use.

Proposed work

Design assisted legal-navigation and representation pathways with affected communities. Include urgent protection, confidential support and a practical handoff to someone who can act.

What we would measure

Completed referrals, abandoned attempts, urgent protection and enforceable remedies. Complaint volume alone says little about whether people can access justice.

03

Repair the shared error

Correcting one person’s case can leave the same institutional defect affecting many others.

Proposed work

Develop a systemic-repair protocol for identifying affected cases, correcting records, restoring services and considering compensation where applicable. Name who can compel and verify each action.

What we would measure

Completed restoration, unresolved cases and recurrence of the underlying error. Closing an incident report is not the same as repairing the harm.

Rights through the whole system.

Human rights are not self-executing. They require law, culture, institutions, enforcement, public courage, and repair. True Tomorrow works on the systems that convert moral commitments into durable protections.

Contestable Public Systems

Make automated and administrative decisions legible, attributable, reviewable, and reversible when they affect a person's rights or essential life conditions.

Proposed outputNotice standard · appeal pathway · accountable system record

Civic Space & Democratic Protection

Strengthen participation, expression, association, information integrity, voting access, and institutional resilience under pressure.

Proposed outputCivic risk map · protection protocol · coalition compact

Justice Access

Reduce the practical distance between a formal right and a usable remedy through language access, legal navigation, representation, and public-interest support.

Proposed outputRights guide · navigation route · remedy design

Durable Rights Architecture

Design protections, independent oversight, enforcement, and review so rights remain operative during crisis, polarization, or technological change.

Proposed outputModel framework · oversight design · stress test

Trace power. Test the remedy.

Advance when the conditions are met. These are proposed stages, not announced projects or deadlines.

  1. Understand

    Follow a decision

    Map one public-service decision from its legal rule to its lived result. Include people who lack the time, support or confidence to challenge it.

  2. Develop

    Rehearse the failure

    Use fictional cases to test explanations, assisted review and a shared-error response. Identify where legal authority or reviewer capacity would be missing.

  3. Review

    Verify the repair

    Define evidence of restored services and corrected records. A future pilot needs independent oversight, confidential reporting and enforceable remedies.

Legal authority, local procedure and enforceability require separate examination in every jurisdiction. Model principles cannot substitute for an effective institution or qualified local advice.

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The support we shareOriginal sculpture · Blender

A rights framework should protect people before, during and after an institutional failure.

Look for restored rights.

Evaluate the outcome for the person and the institution’s ability to prevent the same harm from recurring.

Understanding
Can a person understand the decision, its evidence and the available route to review?
Access
Can people obtain assistance without prohibitive cost, inaccessible processes or fear of retaliation?
Remedy
Can an independent reviewer require a meaningful correction, and does it actually happen?
Repair
Are other affected people found and supported, and is the underlying defect removed?

Proposed measures, not reported outcomes. Baselines, targets and methods would be agreed with participating communities before any pilot.

Keep ambition accountable.

How the work would be developed, and what it must protect.

Our approach

  1. Document the harm

    Describe the lived barrier, responsible power, legal context, material consequence, and people excluded from the record.

  2. Center affected people

    Treat people as authors of the protection and remedy, not symbols, anecdotes, or passive consultation subjects.

  3. Build the remedy

    Join law, process, access, enforcement, oversight, finance, and institutional responsibility into one usable pathway.

  4. Monitor the repair

    Publish what changed, who can challenge it, whether harm persists, and how the institution must adapt.

Policy agenda

The policy agenda joins anti-discrimination, democratic safeguards, digital rights, due process, privacy, civic participation, accessible justice, independent oversight, enforcement, and material repair.

PRICING Act of 2026

Affected people are authors

Communities should shape definitions, evidence, remedies, oversight, and evaluation—not be added after the architecture is set.

Crisis does not erase process

Emergency authority should remain bounded, reviewable, time-limited, and subject to notice, evidence, and remedy.

Safety is not a blank check

Claims of security, efficiency, innovation, or fraud prevention must not conceal discrimination, surveillance, or unappealable power.

Repair must be material

Acknowledgment matters, but restoration may also require compensation, corrected records, service access, institutional change, and enforcement.

Further reading

Examine how protection works.

Foundation evidence brief

Public AI That Can Be Appealed

A sourced evidence brief on notice, responsible human review, remedy, procurement evidence, accountable system records, and risk management after launch.

In-depth publicationRights Protections in Automated Public Systems
Open research questions
  1. Which institutional designs make rights harder to erode during crisis or polarization?
  2. How should rights frameworks adapt to algorithmic decision-making and digital surveillance?
  3. What repair mechanisms restore trust when public systems have produced harm?

Grounded in public evidence

The ICCPR supplies a rights foundation. The Robodebt Royal Commission offers a concrete administrative-failure reference; its recommendations are not universal law.

OHCHR · Civil and political rights Robodebt Royal Commission · Report

Bring the gap between rule and reality.

Rights advocates, public-service teams and researchers can contribute evidence about inaccessible decisions, effective review and institutional repair. Please do not send confidential case files.

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