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MISTICA: CMSI: Critica declaracion Hamelink (CRIS)

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 14:58:51 AST

Colegas,

Una nota que circula en la lista CRIS donde un grupo llamado
"article 19" ofrece una critica argumentada de la declaraci�n
de Cees Hamelink que sirve de fondamento a la campa�a CRIS.

La verdad es que los argumentos son de naturaleza puramente jur�dica
y que personalmente no puedo hacerme una opini�n clara. Tal vez
juristas de la lista (como Erick Iriarte) pueden leer esta critica
y traducirla en terminos accesible mas alla de la fractura jur�dica :-).

Por mi parte, siento que si habria que criticar los terminos de la campa�a
CRIS seria mas bien en la perspectiva de una visi�n desde el Sur y de
la capacidad de transmitir las preoupaciones sociales que discutimos aqui.
En otros terminos, si bien una carta de derecho es fundamental su
eficiencia operativa requiere de un estado de derecho (cosa a vecesdo
dificil de encontrar en el Sur).

Daniel

>From: "John Barker" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:34:44 +0200
>
>12 February 2003 - for immediate release
>
>FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS CENTRAL TO THE RIGHT TO COMMUNICATE
>
>ARTICLE 19 today released a statement on the right to communicate, stressing
>that it should be understood as "the right of every individual or community
>to have its stories and views heard."1
>
>The Statement notes that the right to communicate should not be conceived of
>as a new and independent right. Instead, any Declaration on the Right to
>Communicate should firmly establish it within the framework of existing
>rights, most importantly the right to freedom of expression.
>
>According to ARTICLE 19, the right to communicate should be seen as an
>umbrella or framework term, encompassing within it a group of related rights
>including:
>
>* the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas;
>* the right to pluralism within the media and to equitable access to
>the means of communication;
>* the right to practice and express one's culture;
>* the right to participate in public decision-making processes;
>* the right to access information from public bodies; and
>* supporting rights including the right to communicate anonymously and
>the right to respect for private life.
>
>Understood in this way, a Declaration on the Right to Communicate would make
>a significant contribution to the ongoing process of implementation of the
>International Bill of Rights.
>
>However, we have serious concerns about the draft Declaration on the Right
>to Communicate circulated by Cees Hamelink in December 2002.3 This draft
>Declaration seeks to impose a number of vague, broad restrictions on the
>right to freedom of expression, contrary to international law. Equally
>seriously, it fails to elaborate clearly the implications of the right to
>communicate and what States need to do to respect this right. ARTICLE 19
>urges NGOs to resist inclusion in any Declaration of many of the provisions
>of the Hamelink Declaration, which undermine rather than promote the further
>realisation of human rights.
...

>The statement can be found on ARTICLE 19's website, at
> <http://www.article19.org/docimages/1512.doc>
>
You can access Cees Hamelink's draft Declaration on the
Right to Communicate using the following link
http://www.article19.org/docimages/1514.doc

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