Statements, positions and contributions from the APC
| Title | Abstract |
Date |
Languages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statement to the 57th Session of the CSW: Violence against women and information and communications technology | Mar 2013 | ||
| Joint Submission on Internet-related Human Rights Issues in Mexico | Mar 2013 | LaNeta_APC_JointSubmission_Final.pdf | |
| Joint Submission on Internet-related Human Rights Issues in Nigeria | Mar 2013 | APC_JointSubmission_Final.pdf | |
| IGF 2012: The good, the bad and the ugly |
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Feb 2013 | IGF 2012: The good, the bad and the ugly |
| Joint Submission on Internet-related Human Rights Issues in Cameroon | Dec 2012 | English | |
| APC Perspectivess on the Revision of the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) | Nov 2012 | English | |
| Joint Submission on Internet-related Human Rights Issues in Colombia | Oct 2012 | English | |
| Joint Submission on Internet-related Human Rights Issues in Canada | Oct 2012 | English | |
| Priorities for the seventh Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2012 |
APC will be taking a human rights approach to the 2012 IGF. We will analyse each of the main themes from a human rights perspective and aim to bring these to the fore during discussions, also focusing on a more inclusive range of human rights including women’s human rights. The brief provides the full scope of APC’s priorites at the 2012 IGF in Baku, Azerbaijan. |
Oct 2012 | English |
| Submission to Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the internet | Aug 2012 | APC Submission to SR on RRXD_final.pdf | |
| Consultation on ICT sector discussion paper - Submission to the Institute for Human Rights and Business | Jul 2012 | ||
| Joint Submission on Internet-related Human Rights Issues in Pakistan | Jun 2012 | BytesforAll-APC-joint-UPR-submission-Pakistan-14Session-Oct2012.pdf | |
| APC submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly |
Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association by Association for Progressive Communication (APC). The submission has three parts: the conceptualisation of freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association on the internet, country specific cases and recommendations. |
Jan 2012 | APC Submission FoA Online |
| APC Reflections on the Sixth Internet Governance Forum Nairobi, Kenya September 27-30 2011 and Recommendations for IGF 2012 |
Prior to the IGF, APC released a briefing paper outlining our priorities for the IGF2. In this report, we reflect on those priorities and on the Sixth Forum in general. We also renew our proposal to have human rights be the central theme for the next IGF. |
Dec 2011 | English |
| IGF workshop 155 report: Human rights - a unifying approach for development, freedom, access and diversity? |
A report from the APC workshop organised at the 2011 IGF in Kenya. Workshop participants discussed examples of current internet related human rights violations, considered implications for development, freedom access and diversity, shared strategies for remedies and accountability against human rights violators, opportunities and challenges for seeking remedies, how human rights is a growing theme in the IGF, and the role of government, private sector and civil society in taking these issues forward together. |
Nov 2011 | English |
| APC Statement of Support for An Expert Panel on Freedom of Expression and the Internet at the UN |
APC puts out a statement strongly endorsing the proposal of the Swedish Government for an expert panel on human rights and the internet at the United Nations. |
Sep 2011 | |
| APC Priorities for the Sixth Internet Governance Forum |
The sixth annual meeting of the IGF will take place in Nairobi, Kenya from 27-30 September 2011 with Internet as a catalyst for change: access, development, freedoms and innovation as its main theme. In this document presented in the run-up to the IGF APC strongly supports the focus on access, development and freedoms but outlines a series of recommendations for IGF participants. |
Sep 2011 | English |
| APC's closing statement to the Sixth Internet Governance Forum |
In its statement at the close of the sixth IGF, APC criticises the lack of non-governmental participation in development of the IG proposals which dominated discussions and calls for human rights be the main theme of the IGF in 2012. |
Sep 2011 | |
| APC expresses concern over OECD Communique on principles for internet policy-making | Jul 2011 | English | |
| Human Rights Council: Oral statement by APC on violence against women | Jun 2011 |
