HR in the global information society

["Rikke Frank Joergensen" <rfj@humanrights.dk>]

hi all

The intro to the "Human Rights in the Global Information Society" book, with contributions from a number of WSIS actors, is now online at:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10872 

Rikke 

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Contents of the upcoming book: "Human Rights in the Global Information Society"

Foreword        by Adama Samassékou 

Introduction    William Drake and Rikke Frank Jørgensen 

 

Section 1: Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and Privacy Protection

Chapter 1.       The Right to Express Oneself and to Seek Information by Rikke Frank Jørgensen

Chapter 2.       The Right to Information in the Age of Information by David Banisar

Chapter 3.       Access to Information and Knowledge by Kay Raseroka

Chapter 4.       Intellectual Property Rights and the Information Commons by Robin Gross

Chapter 5.       Privacy as Freedom by Gus Hosein

 

Section 2: Freedom of Association, Participation, and Procedural Protections

Chapter 6.       The Right of Assembly & Freedom of Association in the Information Age by Charley Lewis

Chapter 7.       The Right to Political Participation and the Information Society by Hans Klein

Chapter 8.       The 'Guarantee-Rights' for Realizing the Rule of Law by Meryem Marzouki

Section 3: Equal Treatment and development

Chapter 9.       A Nondiscriminatory Information Society by Mandana Zarrehparvar

Chapter 10.     Women's Human Rights in the Information Society by Heike Jensen

Chapter 11.     Ensuring Minority Rights in a Pluralistic and 'Liquid' Information Society by Birgitte Kofod Olsen

Chapter 12.     The Right to Development in the Information Society by Ran Greenstein and Anriette Esterhuysen