Institute for Information Law - University of Amsterdam...

http://www.ivir.nl/

La matière est complexe, très intéressante aussi... Mais à l'heure de la "Democracy in the Digital Age - Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace" by Anthony G. Wilhem (Routledge, 2000) , les écrivains du numérique sont inévitablement amené(e)s à aborder cette problématique du qui fait quoi sur le Net? Encore une fois, différents acteurs travaillent sur l'Internet, sans oublier les lecteurs, et il devient de plus en plus nécessaire de se poser les bonnes questions quant à nos droits les plus fondamentaux. Que dit la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union Européenne - et c'est un petit rappel - :

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2010:083:0389:0403:FR:PDF

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_security/combating_discrimination/l33501_fr.htm



http://www.ivir.nl/news/UN_freedom_of_expression_and_information.html


The UN and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical Perspectives

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On Friday 23 April 2010 an expert conference took place in Amsterdam organised by the ACIL (Amsterdam Center for International Law) and the Institute for Information Law (IVIR), Faculty of Law, UvA, with the collaboration of Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. Click here for more information about the background to the conference and the programme.


The expert conference and this webpage are part of the aforementioned partners' broader project, The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical Perspectives, which received the generous financial support of: the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Constitutional and Legislative Affairs), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW), the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, and the University of Essex.

The following is an overview of key United Nations standards, mechanisms and selected texts dealing with the conference's three main themes: the right to freedom of expression; the right (of access) to information and media freedom(s).



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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Text of Declaration;

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Portal site.




International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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Text of Covenant;

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Human Rights Committee;

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General Comment No. 34 on Article 19 (Freedom of opinion and expression), July 2011

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CCPR Draft General Comment No. 34 (Upon completion of the first reading by the Human Rights Committee), October 2010;

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CCPR General Comment No. 10: Freedom of expression (Art. 19), 29 June 1983;

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CCPR General Comment No. 11: Prohibition of propaganda for war and inciting national, racial or religious hatred (Art. 20), 29 July 1983;

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Conference Background Paper.




Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Text of Convention;

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Committee on the Rights of the Child;

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CRC General Comment No. 12 (2009): The right of the child to be heard;

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General Discussion Day on the right of the child to be heard (2006);

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General Discussion Day on the child and the media (1996);

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Conference Background Paper.


Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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Text of Convention;

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Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.




International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
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Text of Convention;

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Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination;

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Overview of CERD’s General Recommendations;

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Conference Background Paper.




UNESCO

Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
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Text of Convention;

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Homepage of Convention;

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Overview of UNESCO’s standard-setting instruments;

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Communication and Information portal site;

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Freedom of expression portal site;




Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
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http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/opinion/index.htm


Selected UN Resolutions

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Selected other UN documents /resources
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Final Act of the UN Conference on Freedom of Information (Geneva, 1948);

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Salvador P. López, Freedom of Information, UN Economic and Social Council, Official Records 60 th Session, Supplement No. 12, 6 May 1953;

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UN Seminar on Freedom of Information (Rome, 1964);

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Danilo Türk & Louis Joinet, The right to freedom of opinion and expression: final report, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1992/9, 14 July 1992

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Danilo Türk & Louis Joinet, The right to freedom of opinion and expression: final report (Conclusions and Recommendations), E/CN.4/Sub.2/1992/9/Add.1, 14 July 1992

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Expert seminar on the links between Articles 19 and 20, ICCPR: freedom of expression and advocacy of religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence (Geneva, 2008);

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Durban Review Conference (2009).




Miscellaneous
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS);

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Overview of Annual Joint Declarations of the UN, OAS, OSCE and ACHPR special mechanisms on freedom of expression/the media.


On peut s'intéresser à ceci aussi:

http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/igf/index.html


P.s: L'information peut passer, comme les idées, c'est ce qui s'appelle participer à la création de richesses, lorsque la pensée fait du travail pour la collectivité, cherchant à aller dans le BON SENS...