[governance] Re: Draft IGC statement on Wikileaks

[Katitza Rodriguez]

Hi William,

We already have international instruments that protects freedom of 
expression. It sets precedents of what it can be disclosed. Why we need 
new rules? Can you explain me?

As Frank La Rue said: ""If there is a responsibility by leaking 
information it is of, exclusively of the person that made the leak, and 
not of the media that publish it." Frank La Rue, UN Special Rapporteur 
on Freedom of Expression 
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s3089025.htm 
<http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s3089025.htm>"

Amnesty International: "On the leaking of national defence information: 
While employees of a government have the right to freedom of expression, 
they also have duties as an employee, so a government has more scope to 
impose restrictions on ...its employees than it would have for private 
individuals who receive or republish information. However, Amnesty 
International would be concerned if a government were to seek to punish 
a person who, for reasons of conscience, released in a responsible 
manner information that they reasonably believed to be evidence of human 
rights violations that the government was attempting to keep secret in 
order to prevent the public learning the truth about the violations." 
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/wikileaks-and-freedom-expression-2010-12-09 
<http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/wikileaks-and-freedom-expression-2010-12-09>

Katitza

> Hi Katitza,
>
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Katitza Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> I am not familiar with United Nations structure but I was thinking within the Human Rights Council, to upheld International Human Rights Law on Freedom of Expression. Wikileaks is a Freedom of expression issue.  But again: I am not familiar of how those Council's work. It would be good to know more about it.
> http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/membership.htm
>
> Which of those governments could we expect to adopt international rights-based principles protecting the nationally illegal disclosure of what they deem to be classified national security information?  It's doubtful there'd be one, much less a majority, in this or any other international body.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On 12/12/10 9:10 AM, Drake William wrote:
>>> Hi Lee,
>>>
>>> On Dec 12, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Lee W McKnight wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also appreciate many IGC members and member organizations wish to comment on the WikiLeaks case for their own reasons, but personally would be - depressed - if IGC couldn't manage to comment at all, itself.
>>> If so, then it would be helpful if you could specify the linkages to global Internet governance.  Simply asserting that Wikileaks shows we need a global framework of principles will not by itself be terribly compelling to nonbelievers.  What kinds of principles would address which aspects of the whole phenomenon?  Where would they be established, who would adopt them, how would implementation and compliance be handled, etc...?
>>>
>>> I've added other comments on the site; didn't know digress.it, handy tool, thanks Jeremy.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
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