Human rights in the global information society

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction......Page 14
1 - The Right to Express Oneself and to Seek Information......Page 66
2 - The Right to Information in the Age of Information......Page 86
3 - Access to Information and Knowledge......Page 104
4 - Intellectual Property Rights and the Information Commons......Page 120
5 - Privacy as Freedom......Page 134
6 - The Right of Assembly and Freedom of Association in the Information Age......Page 164
7 - The Right to Political Participation and the Information Society......Page 198
8 - The “Guarantee Rights” for Realizing the Rule of Law......Page 210
9 - A Nondiscriminatory Information Society......Page 234
10 - Women’s Human Rights in the Information Society......Page 248
11 - Ensuring Minority Rights in a Pluralistic and “Liquid” Information Society......Page 276
12 - The Right to Development in the Information Society......Page 294
About the Authors......Page 316
Afterword: The Tunis Commitment......Page 322
Index......Page 324