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Pakistan
As part of a review of Pakistans human rights standing, the Netherlands has recommended that
Pakistan remove restrictions on internet
access.
The recommendation is part of a draft
report of the UN Human Rights Council
working group on the Universal Periodic
Review of Pakistan.
In the draft report, released on November
2, the working group has listed this
demand along with 163 other
recommendations on the countrys rights
record.
The video sharing site, YouTube, has been
suspended in Pakistan since September
17, 2012.
Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
ordered the ban over a blasphemous
movie trailer that incited protests around
the world.
It is the fourth time the site has been
banned since 2008.
Second review
Pakistan presented its second Universal
Periodic Review (UPR) Report in the UN
Human Rights Council on Tuesday,
October 30. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani
Khar defended Pakistans progress since
the last review in 2008. The Review,
created in 2006, takes place every four
years and is a state-driven process.
Pakistan will have to respond to the
recommendations by March 2013 at the
22nd session of the Council. The response
will then be included in the outcome
report adopted by the Council in that
session.
It is a great opportunity as it is now part
of UN Human Rights Councils
recommendations to the government and
we can continue to build pressure on the
government to do better on net freedom
in the country, said Shahzad Ahmad from
Bytes for All (B4A), Pakistan, a human
rights organisation that focuses on the use
of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) for social justice and
development in the country.
Ahmad presented a shadow report along
with two UN accredited international
NGOs, Association for Progressive
Communications and Freedom House.
This is first time ever that a shadow
report on internet rights in Pakistan was
submitted and a UN member state picked
it up and put it as a recommendation for
the government to improve internet rights
in the country, he wrote to The Express
Tribune in an email from Geneva.
Internet-based human rights
Netherlands made the recommendation
that Pakistan (r)emove restrictions on
accessing internet in the country, which
runs counter to the criteria of the ICCPR
[International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights] and the principle of
proportionality.
Internet-based human right issues were
not part of Pakistans first review in 2008.
President Asif Ali Zardari signed the ICCPR
in June 2010 and made Pakistan signatory
to the law which commits it to respect the
civil and political rights of individuals,
including freedom of speech, freedom of
assembly, electoral rights and rights to a
fair trial.
As part of a review of Pakistans human rights standing, the Netherlands has recommended that
Pakistan remove restrictions on internet
access.
The recommendation is part of a draft
report of the UN Human Rights Council
working group on the Universal Periodic
Review of Pakistan.
In the draft report, released on November
2, the working group has listed this
demand along with 163 other
recommendations on the countrys rights
record.
The video sharing site, YouTube, has been
suspended in Pakistan since September
17, 2012.
Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
ordered the ban over a blasphemous
movie trailer that incited protests around
the world.
It is the fourth time the site has been
banned since 2008.
Second review
Pakistan presented its second Universal
Periodic Review (UPR) Report in the UN
Human Rights Council on Tuesday,
October 30. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani
Khar defended Pakistans progress since
the last review in 2008. The Review,
created in 2006, takes place every four
years and is a state-driven process.
Pakistan will have to respond to the
recommendations by March 2013 at the
22nd session of the Council. The response
will then be included in the outcome
report adopted by the Council in that
session.
It is a great opportunity as it is now part
of UN Human Rights Councils
recommendations to the government and
we can continue to build pressure on the
government to do better on net freedom
in the country, said Shahzad Ahmad from
Bytes for All (B4A), Pakistan, a human
rights organisation that focuses on the use
of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) for social justice and
development in the country.
Ahmad presented a shadow report along
with two UN accredited international
NGOs, Association for Progressive
Communications and Freedom House.
This is first time ever that a shadow
report on internet rights in Pakistan was
submitted and a UN member state picked
it up and put it as a recommendation for
the government to improve internet rights
in the country, he wrote to The Express
Tribune in an email from Geneva.
Internet-based human rights
Netherlands made the recommendation
that Pakistan (r)emove restrictions on
accessing internet in the country, which
runs counter to the criteria of the ICCPR
[International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights] and the principle of
proportionality.
Internet-based human right issues were
not part of Pakistans first review in 2008.
President Asif Ali Zardari signed the ICCPR
in June 2010 and made Pakistan signatory
to the law which commits it to respect the
civil and political rights of individuals,
including freedom of speech, freedom of
assembly, electoral rights and rights to a
fair trial.
