WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White Home will unveil a bunch of nations subsequent week which have pledged to work collectively to curb exports of know-how that can be utilized by unhealthy actors and repressive governments to violate human rights, senior administration officers stated on Thursday.

The announcement, which will likely be made as a part of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy, is geared toward addressing “the misuse of sure dual-use applied sciences that may result in human rights abuses” and guaranteeing “vital and rising applied sciences work for and never in opposition to democratic societies,” the officers advised reporters in a briefing name.

The officers declined to call the international locations that may be a part of the group or the applied sciences or customers targetted by it, however stated members would develop and undertake a “written nonbinding code of conduct or assertion of rules supposed to information the appliance of human rights standards to export licensing coverage.”

The officers singled out China for example of a nation that has misused know-how to regulate its inhabitants.

Earlier this yr, the Biden administration added Chinese language corporations to a commerce blacklist for enabling human rights abuses in opposition to Uigher Muslims and added Burmese entities following the coup there. In October, it launched a rule to regulate the export of things used for malicious cyber actions.

The administration invited simply over 100 authorities leaders to the digital Democracy occasion on Dec. 9 and 10, the primary of its variety, which goals to assist cease democratic backsliding and the erosion of rights and freedoms worldwide. The record doesn’t embody China or Russia.