Welcome to the Website of the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition
NEW NEWS: (October 2011) IRP finished a Charter Commentary! This document goes through each article in the Charter and analysing the current state of international law in relation to them. It is a really useful document for any person who is interesting in developing human rights debates about internet governance issues. Read it here.
Recent news:
*September 2011. IRP endorses the Association of Progressive Communication's Statement Supporting Swedish proposal for a UN panel on freedom of expression and the Internet. Read the statement here.
*June 2011 Statement welcoming Special Rapporteur's report on freedom of expression and the Internet. Read it here.
The Internet Rights and Principles have launched the "10 Internet Rights and Principles" - ten key rights and principles which must form the basis of Internet governance! Please read the statement in English here or as a pdf. Our members have also translated it into Albanian, Arabic, Bangla, Bosnian/Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish,Thai and other languages are soon to come. Please show your support by tweeting about it and "liking" it on Facebook. Get involved in this exciting initiative!
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The Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles aims to make human rights on the Internet and their related duties, specified from the point of view of individual users, a central theme of Internet governance policy and processes.
For those familiar with Internet governance, please use the navigation on the left to browse our:videos, mission statement, the original appeal from 2005, and the organisational structure.
Please register on this site, join our mailing list (where most of the discussion, debate and work is taking place) and join our facebook community.
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<:><:><:><:>NEWS<:><:><:><:> Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet Read our Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet – a document which applies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Internet governance and policy issues. This is a beta version of the Charter, and we welcome your comments. To contribute to this process please join our mailing list at the link on the left, or leave comments on the Charter website at: http://irpcharter.org/ <:><:><:><:><:><:><:><:><:><:><:><:><:><: World Internet Day: Wall of Rights An online Wall of Rights has been launched by some coalition members. This is based on the Charter and hosts debate and reflection around human rights and the Internet (currently in Spanish). Get involved at http://diadeinternet.org/muro |
