Internet Rights & Principles Coalition

Get Involved!"The Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition is an open network of individuals and organisations committed to making the Internet work for human rights"

Ways to Participate

Responding to the Internet Governance Forum’s mandate for multi-stakeholderism, the Coalition welcomes and indeed explicitly seeks participants from all stakeholder groups, including individuals, civil society groups,the academic sector, governments, intergovernmental organizations, the technical community, and the private sector.

1 – Read the charter and provide feedback

Read the charter and its supporting documents including the commentary and 10 IRPs.
We want your feedback about how to make the Charter stronger by jumping onto the digress.it page and commenting.

Join the IRP listerv to follow and contribute to the discussion about how best to implement the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966, 1976), and International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on the Internet.

2 – Join our social media networks

Join our Facebook page, become a “fan” and “suggest” to friends
Follow us on Twitter
Subscribe to our Youtube Channel to view informative and inspiring videos
Follow our photostream on Flickr and upload photos to our group pool using netrights tag.

In the near future we hope to also enable different kinds of participation for awareness, education, and fund raising for important initiatives and campaigns.

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Watch the live feed from the Stockholm Internet Forum - fascinating discussions about internet freedom and cybersecurity today, and about internet freedom and development tomorrow: http://www.stockholminternetforum.se
The countdown to Stockholm Internet Forum 2013 has begun and we start it with the release of a trailer for the conference. Please help us spread the word!
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Why we should all start engaging much more actively in the privacy and surveillance debates http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iMU4poWSDuU
TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6660 On December 28, 2012, in the midst of the holiday news break and under cover of the "fiscal clif...
The Last Word on Privacy
GIGANET CALL FOR PAPERS 8th Annual Symposium 21 October 2013 Bali, Indonesia Deadline for abstract submission: July 1 2013 The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) is seeking research submissions about Internet Governance to be presented at its Eighth Annual Symposium, held on 21 October 2013, one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Bali, Indonesia. Submissions that address two interwoven themes are encouraged: • Cybersecurity, cybersurveillance, cyberespionage and cyberwarfare and • State and non-state actor efforts to control the Internet https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2013
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression has released his new report - looking at State surveillance of communications. It's an extremely useful advocacy tool! http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf
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Petition Fights Proposal For Digital Rights Management In Internet Core http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/05/03/petition-fights-proposal-for-digital-rights-management-in-internet-core/?utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts
Just days after the celebration of 20 years of an open WorldWideWeb, more than two dozen advocacy group are circulating a petition to prevent the World Wide Web Consortium from accepting a proposal to allow restrictive new copyright measures on the key technology for accessing the internet.
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Who has your back? Which companies help protect your data for government? A new tool by EFF! https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013?support_whyb=1
When you use the Internet, you entrust your conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what do these companies do when the government demands your private information? Do they stand with you? Do they let you know what’s going on...
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Cyberattacks against El Periódico in Guatemala appear to lead back to President Otto Pérez's administration https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-13573-cyberattack-el-periodico-guatemala-most-recent-long-history-aggressions
Front page of the supplement" A fairytale without a happy ending" from the April 8, edition of El Periódico. On April 8, El Periódico, one of the principal independent newspapers in Guatemala
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IGF - The Internet Governance Forum
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Global civil society all rallied against the "ITU take over of the Internet" in December in Dubai... now, we need to act once again, for the World Telecommunication Policy Forum: http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/04/23/wtf-wtpf-the-continuing-battle-over-internet-governance-principles/
April 23, 2013WTF? WTPF! The continuing battle over Internet governance principlesRemember all the businesses, internet techies and NGOs who were screaming about an “ITU takeover of the Internet” a year ago? Where are they now? Because this time, we actually need them.May 14 – 21 is Internet governa...
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#igf2013 RT-Wanna hold a workshop in Bali? First time doing so? Submit your proposal by 7 May for consideration! http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/
IGF - The Internet Governance Forum
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/disconcerting-details-how-facebook-teams-data-brokers-show-you-targeted-ads
Recently, we published a blog post that described how to opt out of seeing ads on Facebook targeted to you based on your offline activities. This post explained where these companies get their data, what information they share with Facebook, or what this means for your privacy.
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A team is putting together a documentary titled "War for the Web". The documentary revolves around the whole Aaron Swartz debacle and includes the last known video interview with Aaron Swartz. To find our more about it visit: http://warfortheweb.com/ They are looking to raise funds to help make the documentary - if you can help the Indiegogo link is: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/war-for-the-web Thanks!
The same rights that have protected our democracy for generations are now in jeopardy in the most unlikely of places: the Internet.
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“To Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Tobacco and Big Banking, you can now add Big Tech.” What are the implications as Facebook, Google, Apple and other giants invest more and more heavily in political lobbying? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/30/facebook-google-twitter-political-lobbying
Paul Harris: As Facebook and Google begin to form powerful lobbying groups, critics warn that their values are very different from those of millions of ordinary Americans
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What the new transparency report by Microsoft shows us about Skype https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/04/03/what-the-microsoft-transparency-report-does-and-does-not-tell-us-about-skyp#When:14:50:54Z
As we noted in an earlier post, Microsoft released its first-ever transparency report, the 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report, the other week, explaining its approach to criminal law enforcement data requests around the globe. The report includes detailed information and data about the communicati...
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Please show your solidarity! Freedom of Expression on the Internet in Bangladesh is getting worse and worse. Our friends from Somewhere In (a Bangladeshi blogging platform hosting several hundred thousand blogs) tell us that: "We are now very fast loosing our freedom of expression. Overnight, accusations of blasphemy against a handfull of bloggers has flamed up throughout the country. Conservative forces are terming blogger collectively as atheists and anti-islam. Bloggers are being jailed, blogs are being shut down, youtube has been shut since september and official committees are formed to receive evidence of any content hurting religious sentiments. The government has already sat with islamic scholars to get their views on blogs."
Privacy online: "Giving users control may be an essential step, but it may also be a bit of an illusion." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/technology/web-privacy-and-how-consumers-let-down-their-guard.html?ref=technology&_r=0
Consumers insist that they treasure their online privacy. But their mouse clicks tell a far different tale, as the experiments of a behavioral economist show.
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Guardian: "Websites could have to pay exemplary damages if they don't sign up to new regulator, claim opponents of Leveson deal" http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/mar/19/bloggers-libel-fines-press-regulation
Websites could have to pay exemplary damages if they don't sign up to new regulator, claim opponents of the Leveson deal
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Today is World Day against Cyber Censorship - Celebrate by reading this report by Reporters Without Borders
اليوم العالمي لمكافحة الرقابة الإلكترونية Reporters Without Borders celebrates World Day Against Cyber Censorship on 12 March. This event is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet that is unrestricted and accessible to all. It is also meant to draw attention to the fact that, by…
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http://www.osce.org/event/internet2013 Videos from OSCE's February conference "Internet 2013 - Shaping policies to advance media freedom"
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Predictive policing: how Facebook could get you arrested Smart technology and the sort of big data available to social networking sites are helping police target crime before it happens. But is this ethical? http://gu.com/p/3e9vh/tw (via Observer New Review) Photograph: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images
SESSION 51. Rights-Based Principles and the Internet: Taking Stock and Moving Forward Organizer: Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition Languages: EN/FR Thematic focus: Internet
SESSION 51. Rights-Based Principles and the Internet: Taking Stock and Moving Forward Organizer: Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition Languages: EN/FR Thematic focus: Internet Date and time of session: 26 February, 9.30-11.00am Number of participants: 60 Number of remote participants: (ask the remote moderator): 6 Session personnel (moderator, main speakers, discussants): Session Moderator - Marianne Franklin (co-Chair IRP Coalition/Goldsmiths (University of London, UK), www.internetrightsandprinciples.org; www.gold.ac.uk Panellists: Anne Carblanc – OECD, http://www.oecd.org/internet/interneteconomy/ Elvana Thaci - Council of Europe, http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/ Anriette Esterhuizen - Association for Progressive Communications, www.apc.org Dixie Hawtin - Global Partners, www.global-partners.co.uk Meryem Marzouki - CNRS-UPMC/Sorbonne Universités & EDRI/CSISA, http://www.edri.org/ http://www.cnrs.fr/ Parminder Jeet Singh - IT for Change, www.itforchange.net Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza and Joana Varon - CTS/FGV https://www.facebook.com/ctsfgv Remote Moderator – Norbert Bollow (IRP Coalition Steering Committee, Internet Governance Caucus) Rapporteur - Rebecca Zausmer (Global Partners UK) 5. Summary This panel was organized by the IGF Internet Rights and Principles Coalition. It brought together a range of stakeholders engaged in developing a variety of human rights-based principles for Internet governance policy-making and agenda setting. These initiatives include the IRP Coalition’s Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet, the Brazilian Marco Civil, Association for Progressive Communication Internet Rights Charter, Council of Europe Compendium of Rights of Internet Users, the OECD Work on Principles for Internet Policy Making Rights, and the 2012 UN Human Rights Council Resolution 20/8. The session was in two parts: looking back and moving forward. First, the participants provided a historical perspective on the importance of the UN Bill of Rights for protecting, defending, promoting, and realizing internet users’ human, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights in the online environment. Panelists recalled the formative role of pioneering work during the WSIS period and since then in the IGF. They highlighted shifts in priorities during these earlier processes, increasing public awareness of the need to protect and promote all human rights in the design, access and use of the internet through developing instruments that can make all stakeholders in the internet governance policy-making and agenda-setting domain accountable for protecting and realizing users’ rights at all levels. Each participant presented their respective reflections on preceding initiatives and their current priorities for articulating and implementing rights and principles at the global, regional, national, and local levels. A lively debate between participants and the audience underscored a consensus that multistakeholderism in principle and in practice needs to take measures to ensure that all stakeholders are able to engage in the consultative, institutionalization, and operationalization of all aspects of the UN Bill of Rights as these apply to the online environment. Despite differences in priorities, affiliation, and recommendations for moving their respective projects forward throughout the legal, social, and technical domains of internet governance the session was able to distill the following recommendations. 6. Agreed recommendations from the session The full range of human rights should be the normative foundation of any internet policy making and internet governance processes. Encourage all initiatives around human rights and principles to ensure that consultations, formulation and implementation engage all sectors of civil society in particular grassroots communities. Reinforce the principles of multistakeholder dialogue and open participation as the way of working in all internet governance arenas together with generating concrete outcomes Theme for IGF Bali 2013 and WSIS 2015 should be Human Rights and Principles for the Internet The creation of a dedicated UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Internet as a monitoring and accountability mechanism for the online environment
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