<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Governance list peeps,<div><br></div><div>For those of you who didn't see it, the HRC received a new report from special rapporteur LaRue this week:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; "><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf"><font face="Helvetica">Report of the Special Rapporteur on the </font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">promotion and protection of the right to freedom </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">of opinion and expression</span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; "><div dir="ltr" data-font-name="g_font_p0_16" data-canvas-width="493.5379347085768" style="left: 151.547px; top: 551.907px; "><font face="Helvetica">"... analyses the implications of States’ surveillance of communications on the exercise of </font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">the human rights to privacy and to freedom of opinion and expression. While considering </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">the impact of significant technological advances in communications, the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">report underlines </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">the urgent need to further study new modalities of surveillance and to revise national laws </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">regulating these practices in line with human rights standards."</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>