Class Outline
1. Human rights and spaces
Human rights in real world - UN Declaration in 1948,...
Human rights in cyberspace
Human rights in mixed space
2. Overview of major issues
Democracy
Privacy
Gender
Minority
Freedom of expression and association
Education
Content policy
Class Description (by APC)
Internet rights are human rights
Introduction to human rights, ICTs and the Internet
Freedom of association and freedom of assembly
Freedom of expression and freedom of information
The right to privacy
Class Description (by Chinmayi Arun)
This class will tease out the ways in which human rights are impacted by the internet.
This will include the widely discussed rights of freedom of expression and privacy,
as well as related and subsidiary rights like freedom of association and the right to access information.
Discussions will range from censorship, blocking and surveillance to questions of algorithmic
decision-making, the right to be de-indexed and free access to walled gardens.
Class Description (by KS Park)
- Freedom of speech and intermediary liability
- Hate speech regulation
- Privacy, data protection, anonymity
- Net neutrality and right to access
- Open government and right to know
Video: 2016 APSIG by KS Park
Class Description (IT for Change/Anita Gurumurthy,..)
The United Nations Human Rights Council has observed that the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online. What does it mean to extend civic-political liberties and socio-economic rights into online spaces? This lecture will analyse the new concerns that our digital existence poses to civic-political rights to information, free expression, privacy, and bodily integrity; and economic, social and cultural rights to education, work, social security and full participation in cultural life. It will then examine the extent to which existing legal and institutional frameworks in the Asia-Pacific respect, protect and promote these rights online and point to lessons from other contexts. In conclusion, it will demonstrate that existing frameworks that emphasize the importance of the digital as a critical space in the struggle for human rights -- such as the 'the right to communicate' -- do not adequately help us grapple with the scale of the challenge, as the Internet is not just a media artifact but an inextricable substrata of our social life; and conclude with teasing out the contours of a new idea of 'digital justice' that can be an adequate horizon for human rights struggles in the current context.
Lecture Pool: KS Park
Additional Candidate Lecturers: Anja Kovacs, Anriette Esterhuysen, Chat Garcia Romilo, Mishi Choudary, Sadaf Baig, Anita Gurumurthy, Chinmayi Arun
Chinmayi Arun, Bio, National Law University, New Delhi, 2016.
Chinmayi Arun, Preliminary findings on online hate speech and the law in India, 2016.12.8.
CoE, Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms
EU, Safer Internet.
Freedom House, Freedom on the Net, 2017.
Anita Gurumurthy, Bio (including) Publication List, IT for Change.
Internet Society, Internet Policy Principles, in Shaping the Internet, 2015.
Rikke Jorgenson, Human rights in global information sociey, MIT Press, 2006.
Jovan Kurbalija, Sociocultural Basket, in Introduction to IG, 2015.
Roger McNamee, How to fix Facebook - before it fixes us, 2018.1.
NecessaryandProportionate.org, International principles on application of human rights to communications surveillance, 2013.
N.ten Oever, Human Rigahts Protocol Consideration, IRTF RFC 8280, 2017.
Yuhyun Park,How can we help kids to protect themselves online?, WEF, 2017.
David Souter, Human Rights, ICTs and Internet, AfriSIG, 2015.
UN, Convention on the rights of peo ple with disabilities.
UN, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948. http://www.ohchr.org/en/udhr/pages/introduction.aspx.
UN,UN condemns internet access disruption as a human rights violation, The Verge, 2016.7.4.
Wired, It's golden age of free speech, 2018.1.
