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Derechos humanos
Rikke Frank Jørgensen
The concept of human rights in the information society involve comprehension of
two key phrases; human rights and the information society.
Linking a legal tradition to a vaguely defined policy concept
Human rights draw on deep and widespread historical roots since practically all
cultures, religions, and philosophies include human rights principles, though they
also contain practices which are incompatible with human rights. However, one
important date for placing it on the international agenda is December 10, 1948
when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted at the UN
General Assembly in the aftermath of the Second World War to ensure that such
horror would never again occur. The UDHR has since been developed into a large
body of international conventions and declarations, some of them legally binding,
others political statements, which UN member states commit to follow in their
national legislation and practice. [1]
In the following, human rights are referred to as defined in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
as civil and political rights of citizens, as well as their economic, cultural, and social
rights. At the 1993 UN World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna, the
international community reaffirmed the four principles that lie at the heart of the
human rights regime: human rights are universal (rights belong to all persons),
indivisible (rights cannot be separated from one another), interrelated (rights
impact upon one another) and interdependent (a right cannot be fully achieved
without fulfilment of all other rights) [2].
The term information society has academic roots dating back to the mid-seventies
[3] but was politically revitalized by the American and European project to privatize
and liberalize the telecommunication sector globally. In 1994, Al Gore as the US
Vice President, announced the creation of “the Global Information Infrastructure”,
echoed at the European level in a number of white papers and reports in the mid-
¬nineties, the most famous of which was the Report of the Bangemann High Level
Expert Group in 1994. In official rhetoric the many political, economic, scientific,
and social changes related to globalization and communication infrastructure soon