[bestbits] Oral statement - UN Human Rights Council re: SR on the right to privacy

[Carlos A. Afonso]

Hi Deborah, I've just sent Tomaso Nupef's support. We have posted a
version in Brazilian Portuguese in our institutional portal as well as
our online magazine RETS, with a call for BR NGOs to support it:

http://www.nupef.org.br/?q=node/119

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 03/02/2015 08:31 PM, Deborah Brown wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> As you might be aware, there is an ongoing effort to establish a UN
> Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy. The Human Rights Council is
> expected to consider this at its current session, which began today in
> Geneva.
> 
> If established, the rapporteur will provide much-needed leadership and
> guidance on developing an understanding of the scope and content on the
> right to privacy, as well as strengthening the monitoring of states and
> companies' compliance with their responsibility to respect and protect
> the right to privacy in their laws, policies and practices.
> 
> We have been working with Privacy International and others to develop an
> oral statement (attached), which will be delivered during the session of
> the Council. We are inviting NGOs to join this statement in order to
> send a strong signal of support for the creation of a Special Rapporteur
> on the right to privacy.
> 
> Given the previous interest on Best Bits in privacy and surveillance
> issues, I wanted to share this statement here to give you the
> opportunity to sign on.  If your organisation is interested to join it,
> please email Tomaso Falchetta (at tomasof at privacyinternational.org
> <mailto:tomasof at privacyinternational.org>) and Shawna Finnegan
> (shawna at apc.org) by *no later than Wednesday, 11 March*.
> 
> *Please note that this statement is not for publication before 13 March. *
> 
> All the best,
> Deborah
> 
> 
> 
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