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February 25, 2005
Kuwait News Agency Covers Prepcom Privacy Statement
The state-run Kuwait news agency has published an article documenting the civil society statement on privacy rights read at the WSIS Prepcom yesterday. Civil society reps decided to have Qusai Ibrahim Al Shatti of the Kuwait Information Technology Society read the statement in Arabic, which caught the attention of many of the governmental delegates in the plenary. The article quotes heavily from the statement, saying "Privacy is an essential human right, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant of Political and Civil Rights," among other things. Chances are, the Kuwait news agency wouldn't have covered this important speech if it hadn't been read in Arabic by a Kuwaiti civil society delegate, so it seems the decision to present it this way was a good one indeed.... -andy
Posted by acarvin at February 25, 2005 7:28 AM
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