[Ecommerce] EU: Council's Declaration for WSIS

[Manon Ress]

http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/controlador.jsp?cuerpo=noticiasCuerpo

Council of Europe. Committee of Ministers adopts Declaration on human
rights and rule of law in the Information Society

The first international framework declaration on human rights and the
rule of law in the Information Society have been adopted by the Council
of Europe's Committee of Ministers.

The Declaration updates the principles of the European Convention on
Human Rights for the cyber-age and covers issues such as censorship, the
protection of private information, education on assessing information
quality, media ethics, using IT for democratic purposes and freedom of
assembly in cyberspace. It also considers means of national and
international cooperation by stakeholders such as Internet Service
Providers, hardware and software makers, governments and society.

The Declaration has been distributed at the Council of Europe's Warsaw
Summit (16th - 17th May) and represents the Council's contribution to
the UN World Summit on the Information Society to be held in Tunis in
November 2005.
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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

Consumer Project on Technology in Washington, DC PO Box 19367,
Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel.:  +1.202.387.8030, fax: +1.202.234.5176

Consumer Project on Technology in Geneva, 1 Route des  Morillons, CP
2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. Tel: +41 22 791 6727

Consumer Project on Technology in London, 24 Highbury Crescent, London,
N5 1RX, UK. Tel:+44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252. Mob:+44(0)790 386 4642. Fax:
+44(0)207 354 0607