Internet Rights and Principles Coalition

The Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles aims to make human rights on the internet and their related duties, specified from the point of view of individual users, a central theme of Internet Governance policy and processes. The coalition welcomes and indeed explicitly seeks particpants from all stakeholder groups, including individuals, civil society groups, the academic sector, governments, intergovernmental organisations, the technical community and the private sector.

Their mission is:

• Bring awareness and promote fundamental human and civil rights and liberties on the internet;
• Identify ways in which these rights and liberties can be translated on the internet, and evaluate the applicability of existing legislation;
• Promote the addressing of issues and human and civil rights in policy-making proposals by all stakeholders;
• Promote the specification of how the existing rights can be applied and what they practically imply in the context of new ICT technologies;
• Identify ways in which new rights and principles deriving from the innovations caused by the internet can be defined, agreed and promoted when necessary;
• Seek to identify measures for the protection and enforcement of these rights;
• Seek to engage the various stakeholders within the Coalition’s mission and express the Coalition’s interest to work with them.

For further information on this dynamic coalition please click on the following link to visit their website.