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Privacy International's submission to the UN Human Rights Committee on Article 21 of the ICCPR

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14th March 2019
Privacy International's submission to the UN Human Rights Committee on Article 21 of the ICCPR

Privacy International's submission to the Human Rights Committee on a future General Comment on Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

In this submission, Privacy International aims to provide the Committee with information on how surveillance technologies are affecting the right to peaceful assembly in new and often unregulated ways.

Based on Privacy International’s research, we provide the following observations:

  • the relationship between right to peaceful assembly and right to privacy;

  • right to peaceful assembly and new surveillance technologies;

  • right to peaceful assembly online.

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Submission on Article 21 of ICCPR.pdf
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