HRWG Calls for
AICHR to Adopt Human
Rights on the Internet
[Jakarta, July 27,
2012] – Human Rights Working Group (HRWG)
calls for ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) to
adopt
the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet
access
in ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD). HRWG has sent the submission
to H.E.
Om Yentieng, Chairperson of AICHR on July 27, 2012.
“We believe that
the current draft may include the promotion
and protection of freedom of expression in offline manner, and we call
upon
AICHR to ensure that it is also protected online. This addition would be
one of
the added values of the AHRD to respond and be fit with the current
situation,”
said Yuyun Wahyuningrum, Senior Advisor of Human Rights and ASEAN on
HRWG in
Jakarta, (27/7).
Yuyun adds this
area could be categorized as adding to a
people-centered character of the draft. “Furthermore, Internet now is
one of
the most important tools for development and for exercising human rights
in the
region”.
This is also in
line with current public discourse on Human
Rights when UN released resolution regarding the promotion, protection
and
enjoyment of human rights on the Internet (A/HRC/20/L.13). This
resolution
recognizes, among other things, the global and open nature of the
Internet as a
driving force in accelerating progress towards development in its
various
forms; as well as a call to all States to promote and facilitate access
to the
Internet and international cooperation aimed at the development of media
and
information and communications facilities in all countries.
Strengthening Yuyun
statement, Choirul Anam, Deputy Director
of HRWG stated that people of ASEAN use internet for improving their
live hood.
“AHRD should aware with the globalized changing situation. We condemn
every
restriction on it,” said Anam.
HRWG is Indonesia's
NGO Coalition for International Human
Rights Advocacy. Established by a the majority of NGOs working in
different
issues but share interest in human rights to serve the need for
elaborate
advocacy works already in place with the aim of maximizing the goals and
putting more pressures on the Indonesian government to execute its
international and constitutional obligations to protecting, fulfilling,
respecting and promoting human rights in the country. [ ]
Contact Person: Yuyun
Wahyuningrum, Senior Advisor
on ASEAN and Human Rights, HRWG, Mobile +62 815 1054 3290, Email: wahyuningrum@gmail.com
Attached file is HRWG’s Submission on the inclusion of the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights onthe Internet in ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD)
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