[governance] Human Rights Council Resolution on Human Rights on the Internet

[Matthias C. Kettemann]

Dear all,

after lots of declaration on Internet rights (and freedom), we now have 
a resolution as well.

On Thursday, the Human Rights Council  has adopted a resolution entitled 
"The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet 
". It is brief and largely uncontroversial, but falls short of spelling 
out more clearly the obligations of states vis-a-vis the Internet and 
the limits to their attempts to limit Internet freedoms.

Here we go:
[The Human Rights Council]

1./Affirms /that the same rights that people have offline must also be 
protected online, in particular freedom of expression, which is 
applicable regardless of frontiers and through any media of one’s 
choice, in accordance with articles 19 of the Universal Declaration of 
Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;

2./Recognizes /the global and open nature of the Internet as a driving 
force in accelerating progress towards development in its various forms;

3./Calls upon**/all States to promote and facilitate access to the 
Internet and international cooperation aimed at the development of media 
and information and communications facilities in all countries;

4./Encourages /special procedures to take these issues into account 
within their existing mandates, as applicable;**

5./Decides /to continue its consideration of the promotion, protection 
and enjoyment of human rights, including the right to freedom of 
expression, on the Internet and in other technologies, as well as of how 
the Internet can be an important tool for development and for exercising 
human rights, in accordance with its programme of work.


I've written a brief entry on the resolution 
(http://internationallawandtheinternet.blogspot.co.at/) and have 
suggested that we need to put a bit more flesh on the bones of the 
Council's commitment (You can find the resolution here, but it's still 
the draft version: https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/G1214710.pdf).

That's another task for the pre-IGF phase, I fear.

Kind regards

Matthias


Am 06.07.2012 07:43, schrieb Jeremy Malcolm:
> On 03/07/12 12:57, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>> Most of you have probably seen the Declaration of Internet Freedom 
>> that is going around; see http://www.internetdeclaration.org/freedom.
>>
>> It's not very good.
>
> And following on from that, here's the neocon version:
>
> http://declarationofinternetfreedom.org/
>
> I didn't think much of the last one, but these guys didn't even 
> *try*.  For them (bafflingly, including groups from the UK and Italy), 
> the Internet's freedom of expression derives from the First Amendment 
> to the US Constitution, and the right to privacy from the Fourth 
> Amendment!
>
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Univ.-Ass. Mag. iur. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard)

Institut für Völkerrecht und Internationale Beziehungen
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Mag. iur. Matthias C. Kettemann, LL.M. (Harvard)
Teaching and Research Fellow

Institute of International Law and International Relations
University of Graz

Universitätsstraße 15/A4, 8010 Graz, Austria

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