Dear all,
I am sorry I have been silencing for long time.
From: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
Subject: [communication 408] Our Tokyo declaration
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:17:14 +0900
Message-ID: <p05100301ba59c7056e11@[192.168.11.2]>
> Missing from the numbered list - children and exploitation of
> children. A millennium goal issue, and one particularly important to
> our region.
I understand children issues is very serious. But I think we should
consider it more deliberately in terms of the internet issues. Because
EU, US and Japan tries to ratify the Cyber Crime Convention by Council
of Europe by pretext of spreading child pornography in the
Internet. This convention permits more free hands to law enforcement
for wiretapping, surveillance and other investigation beyond national
border in order to investigate so called "serious crimes".
Also, US and other western countries try to strengthen monitoring and
surveillance of migrants people by pretext of restriction of human
trafficking. In this pint, the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime has a serious damage to our civil
liberty and human rights for political activities though this has a
protocol regarding human trafficking.
We should be careful not being carried off our own feet. Especially
if we should refer "children" issues, we should also express our own
view point regarding the Cyber Crime Convention and the UN Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime. As for my own opinion, I have
been opposing these two conventions for several years with many
Japanese civil action groups.
Regarding Cyber Crime Convention issues, please check following web
sites.
http://www.statewatch.org/
http://www.gilc.org/
best regards,
toshi
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toshimaru ogura
ogr@nsknet.or.jp
toshi@jca.apc.org
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