Fwd: [GILC-plan] Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties releases report on the CyberCrime Convention 2001

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

FYI. CR&CL is a member of this caucus, and I can personally recommend 
Yaman's work even before having read it !
Congratulations, Yaman.

Meryem

Début du message réexpédié :

> Please circulate widely....
> I will keep the report up-to-date with various updates.
>
> All the best,
>
> Yaman
>
> Leeds, 01 December, 2003 - Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties, released 
> today an Advocacy Handbook for the Non Governmental Organisations: The 
> Council of Europe's Cyber-Crime Convention 2001 and the additional 
> protocol on the criminalisation of acts of a racist or xenophobic 
> nature committed through computer systems, December 2003.
>
> The Cyber-Crime Convention 2001 and its additional protocol has been 
> developed by the Council of Europe, an international and well 
> respected organisation with a primary mission to strengthen democracy, 
> human rights, and the rule of law throughout its member states. 
> Although the Cyber-Crime Convention states in the preamble that a 
> proper balance needs to be ensured between the interests of law 
> enforcement and respect for fundamental human rights, the balance 
> resolutely and regrettably favours the former claimes Cyber-Rights & 
> Cyber-Liberties.
>
> While the CoE's concerns in relation to cyber-crimes and its desire to 
> address criminal law and mutual assistance in criminal matters are 
> shared by many, any co-ordinated policy initiative at an international 
> level should ideally aim to offer the best protection for individual 
> rights and liberties. Lamentably, this has not been the case.
>
> This advocacy handbook for the NGOs written by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, the 
> director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties provides a policy analysis 
> of the Cyber-Crime Convention 2001 and its first additional protocol 
> from a human rights perspective for policy specialists, NGOs, and 
> human rights activists within the 45 member states of the Council of 
> Europe. Compatibility problems with the European Convention on Human 
> Rights and implications for freedom of expression, privacy of 
> communications and data protection will be the main focus of this 
> critical analysis. The appendices include other useful information 
> that could be relied upon while NGOs and policy activists lobby their 
> individual governments in relation to the implementation of the 
> Cyber-Crime.
>
> The Report is released as a pdf file and can be obtained through 
> http://www.cyber-rights.org/cybercrime/
>
> For further information contact: Dr. Yaman Akdeniz
> Director, Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties
> email: lawya@cyber-rights.org
> Tel: +44 (0)7798 865116 Fax: +44 (0)7092199011
> http://www.cyber-rights.org / http://www.cyber-rights.net
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