Re: [hr-wsis] Re: More inputs to HR caucus document

[Bill McIver <mciver@albany.edu>]

Meryem Marzouki wrote:

> I think there would be no problem in making a reference to the HR 
> caucus : even though it probably wont submit a document before this 
> deadline of May 31, there will be a document and, after all, the HR 
> caucus does exist and share this minimum values that are implied by 
> the paragraph you've written.
>
> I, personally, may have a problem with the concept of "free flow of 
> information". It has been introduced for years by american neoliberal 
> doctrine, and it has been for years too the "argument" against the 
> NWICO and McBride report conclusions. 

This can be edited. I certainly did not mean the language to be 
anti-NWICO or anti-MacBride.
I think the term has been used on both side of the argument.

>
>
> Apart from that, I think references to others rights of the UDHR 
> should apply, e.g.:
>
> Article 10 -- right to a fair trial
> Article 11 -- presumption of innocence (both as arguments against ISP 
> liability used as a mean of privatized censorship)
>
> Etc.
>
> Le vendredi, 30 mai 2003, à 14:50 Europe/Paris, karen banks a écrit :
>
>> dear all
>>
>> I would like to support bill's comments re para 10 on article19.. and 
>> in fact, APC would like to endorse this in it's own statement - 
>> however, at the moment, we refer to the Human rights caucus, but, if 
>> the caucus is not submitting comments, this may be inappropriate..
>>
>> bill - are you ok with us endorsing this comment somehow?
>>
>> karen
>>
>>
>> We want to particularly endorse the reference to the UN Universal 
>> Declaration of Human Rights in Paragraph 10 but feel, like the Human 
>> Rights Caucus, that it is not sufficient to assert that "the 
>> essential requirements for the development of an equitable 
>> Information Society" should be "in accordance" with Article 19 of the 
>> UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Instead, the document 
>> should declare once and for all that Article 19 must be enforced. In 
>> addition, as many have pointed out, the principles of free flow of 
>> information, communication, press freedoms, and knowledge sharing 
>> will become truly meaningful only when they are viewed as being 
>> supported by a complex of rights, not just Article 19. To this end, 
>> the document should declare that the following rights be enforced in 
>> concert in order that Paragraph 10 be made more meaningful:
>>
>> Article 12 -- Privacy;
>>
>> Article 18 -- Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion;
>>
>> Article 19 -- Freedom of expression and the right to seek, receive, 
>> and impart information through any media;
>>
>> Article 20 -- Freedom of peaceful assembly;
>>
>> Article 26 -- The right to education; and,
>>
>> Article 27 -- The right to participate in the cultural life of the  
>> community as well as intellectual property rights.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Putting the "Human Rights in the Information Society" issue on the 
>> WSIS Agenda
>> Working list of NGOs
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>
>
> -- 
> Putting the "Human Rights in the Information Society" issue on the 
> WSIS Agenda
> Working list of NGOs
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Bill McIver
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science and Policy
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, New York 12222
USA

e-mail: mciver@albany.edu
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