Human Rights and the Internet

by Hick, Steven; Halpin, Edward F.; Hoskins, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780333777336
• ISBN10: 0333777336
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-11
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Internet is having an increasing influence on our lives, but what implications does it hold for human rights? How can it be used to promote and protect them? This book, written by an accomplished group of activists, writers, and academics, describes the development and use of the Internet for human rights, examines its impact across the world and upon various sectors of society, and discusses current and future trends in human rights promotion and protection.

Author Biography

Steven Hick is Assistant Professor, Carleton University.

Edward F. Halpin is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Research and Information Management, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Eric Hoskins is Senior Policy Advisor to the Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Azworthy.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Mary Robinson
Preface	x
Abid Hussain
Notes on the Contributors	xiii
Acknowledgements	xviii
Part I Perspectives of Human Rights on the Internet	1	(40)
Introduction	3	(13)
Edward F. Halpin
Steven Hick
Eric Hoskins
The Mouse is Mightier than the Sword
The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy	16	(5)
The European Parliament and Human Rights on the Internet	21	(9)
Glyn Ford
Human Rights NGOs: Our Love-Hate Relationship with the Internet	30	(11)
Patti Whaley
Part II Online Human Rights Activism	41	(48)
Rebel Internet: Human Rights and the New Technology	43	(9)
Wayne Sharpe
Internet Solidarity: Grassroots Movement Struggles for Human Rights	52	(13)
Steven Hick
Ariel Teplitsky
Doing Human Rights Online: the Derechos' Cyberbirth	65	(11)
Michael Katz-Lacabe
Margarita Lacabe
Information Overload: How Increased Information Flows Affect the Work of the Human Rights Movement	76	(13)
Eric Sottas
Ben Schonveld
Part III Human Rights around the World on the Internet	89	(50)
The Internet in Africa: a Turning Point in the Struggle for Human Rights?	91	(13)
Jacques Gauthier
Human Rights and the Internet in South America	104	(12)
Alejandro Pacheco
Human Rights and the Internet in Europe	116	(13)
Graham Lane
Human Rights and the Internet in Asia: Promoting the Case of East Timor	129	(10)
Sharon Scharfe
Part IV Uses and Abuses of the Internet	139	(46)
Hate on the Internet	141	(12)
Karen Mock
The Internet and International Children's Rights	153	(13)
Mark Erik Hecht
Rodney Neufeld
Women's Voices against the War: the Internet in the Fight for Human Rights during the War in the Former Yugoslavia	166	(8)
Djurdja Knezevic
Reflections on the Colour of the Internet	174	(11)
Lorna Roth
Part V Current Issues and Future Trends	185	(66)
Privacy, Free Speech and Community: Applying Human Rights Law to Cyberspace	187	(13)
Valerie Steeves
Political Control and the Internet	200	(11)
Steve Wright
Communication, Human Rights and Cyberspace	211	(14)
Marshall Conley
Christina Patterson
Human Rights Education on the Internet: Its Day Has Come	225	(13)
Richard Pierre Claude
Steven Hick
Information: an Essential Tool for Human Rights Work	238	(13)
Edward F. Halpin
Steven Hick
Index	251