Right to Internet: Bringing Information to the Citizens

The best way to characterise human rights is to identify the outcomes that we are trying to ensure. These include critical freedoms like freedom of speech and freedom of access to information - and those are not necessarily bound to any particular technology at any particular time. Citizens must always check that they aren’t getting incomplete or biased data. Open Data are almost always data that should surely be open, and that almost never contain any personal information.

Read more on this issue at: http://internetrights.in/2013/04/05/right-to-internet-bringing-information-to-the-citizens/http://internetrights.in/2013/04/05/right-to-internet-bringing-information-to-the-citizens/

Claiming the Human Right to Protection from Disasters

The article outlines why it is the citizen's right to demand protection from disasters from his/her government and other duty-bearers. If disasters are unresolved problems of development, then failing to resolve these problems is denying people their right to protection from disasters. Losses due to disaster (numbers of people affected and economic, social and environmental assets) are on the increase.

This article is available at: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/submissions/31225_righttodisasterprotection.pdf

Making it work: Lessons learnt from three regional workshops to integrate human rights into national HIV strategic plans

To strengthen national response to HIV,  United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in collaboration with the technical support of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance), initiated a project in 2011 to help national stakeholders (national AIDS programme managers, officials from ministries of health, gender and justice, civil society representatives, members of affected communities and UN staff) integrate human rights programmes into National Strategic Plans (NSPs).

This brief report outlines some short term outcomes and lessons learnt from this initiative. It is available at:

http://www.aidsalliance.org/publicationsdetails.aspx?id=90616