The 1,5-days joint workshop ‘Human Rights in Cyberspace‘ welcomes ten speakers and aims to shed light on a variety of questions arising from International Human Rights Law (IHRL) in Cyberspace in a progressive way. Especially it welcomes experts working in the field of human rights, cyber, cybersecurity, to exchange their view on how to ensure IHRL in domestic norms..

Large-scale State mass surveillance activities and other security measures, rapidly advancing nowadays, can lead to disillusioning effects on the right to privacy and the right to freedom of expression. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted in 1948 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 1966, no one could have imagined that decades later it would affect a place called cyberspace.

In the day two of the workshop, Birgitta Jónsdóttir will be talking about ‘Who should protect your digital shadow’? Jónsdóttir is a poetician, Member of the Icelandic Parliament, and chairperson of the International Modern Media Institute, which is one of the D-CENT partners.

See the whole preliminary programme here.

The workshop is held in cooperation with the Institute for National Security and Counter Terrorism (INSCT), Syracuse University and chaired by Professor Gabor Rona. Seats for the audience are limited, free of charge but upon invitation only.