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Season's greetings and best wishes for the New Year
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"Our
Internet - Our Rights, Our Freedoms" |
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Protecting you and your rights: the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime ten years on |
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In a
series of workshops on 21 and 22 November, the 250 or so
participants have looked into: Key messages, presentations and videos of the Conference
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Monaco Conference
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The Council of Europe has brought together ministers, Members of Parliaments, children’s rights defenders and civil society representatives to finalise its new strategy for children’s rights at a conference held under the auspices of H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover on 20 and 21 November in Monaco. The strategy is designed to enhance the capacity of the Council of Europe and its 47 member states to ensure respect for children’s rights, in particular by developing child-friendly services, by eliminating all forms of violence against children and by promoting a culture of respect for children’s rights, needs and opinions. Three subjects were addressed at the workshops: · Making children the masters of the game: the challenges of data protection in the new media environment · Empowering children through learning: democratic citizenship and human rights education · Strong families for strong children: policies in support of positive parenting. |
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New publication |
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The "rags to
riches" story of Karol Jakubowicz's involvement in the work of the
Council of Europe took him from the role of an awestruck newcomer
from Poland in 1990 to that of the Chairman of the Steering
Committee on the Media and New Communication Services (2005-06).
Along the way, he was elected, delegated by the Steering Committee,
and invited by the Council of Europe Secretariat to serve in a
number of other capacities. In all of them, he contributed a wide
variety of papers, reports and studies to assist the steering
committee and other bodies in collecting information and formulating
ideas in the general field of freedom of expression, creation of
free and democratic media systems (including the issue of public
service media), regulation of transfrontier television, the
adjustment of Council of Europe human rights standards to the
conditions of the information society, and the development of
broadcasting legislation in Council of Europe member states. The present collection of these papers and reports is published in the conviction that they retain their value and relevance. It provides the additional benefit of offering a glimpse of the work preceding the formulation of Committee of Ministers recommendations and declarations, as well as resolutions of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. |
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United Kingdom Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe |
15th and last meeting of the Steering Committee on Media and New Communication Services - CDMC |
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Priorities of the Chairmanship
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Having reached
the end of its mandate, the CDMC met for the last time from 29
November to 2 December in Strasbourg. On its agenda, there were a lot of important standard setting texts to finalise concerning: the protection of human rights with regard to search engines, the protection of human rights with regard to social networking services, libel tourism and gender aspects of Council of Europe standard setting texts. The CDMC worked also on a preparatory work for its successor Steering Committee on media and Information Society (CDMSI) that will take over as from 1 January. See the terms of reference of the CDMSI.
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Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (T-PD) |
Internet:
Case-law of
the European Court of Human Rights |
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Speech by Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe |
The Research and Library Division of the Registry of the
European Court of Human Rights has conducted a study on the case-law
of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) and the Internet.
This study provides a reliable and up-to-date overview of cases
concerning the Internet that have already been dealt with by the
ECtHR or are still pending – this being a constantly evolving
subject.
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Council of Europe alerts against pressure and attacks on new media, whistleblowers and human rights defenders websites
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Building a
child-friendly Europe: turning a vision into reality
On
7 November 2011, the UK took over the chairmanship of the Committee of
Ministers of the Council of Europe. 
The Consultative Committee of the
Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic
Processing of Personal Data (T-PD), established under Article 18 of the
Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic
Processing of Personal Data [ETS No. 108], held its 27th meeting in
Strasbourg from 29 November to 2 December 2011, with Mr Jean-Philippe
Walter (Switzerland) in the chair.
The
Council of Europe Committee of Ministers alerted its member states about
the risks to the rights to freedom of expression and association that
may be created by politically motivated pressure on Internet platforms
and online service providers. It also expressed concern about the threat
to these rights caused by cyber attacks against websites of independent media, whistleblowers, human right
defenders and dissidents.