ACTA Violates Fundamental Human Rights
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Oct 2011 13:31 UTC
Legal A few days ago, several countries signed ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. As you are probably aware, ACTA was drafted up in secret, and is basically Obama/Biden's attempt to impose the US' draconian pro-big business/big content protection laws on the rest of the world ('sign it, or else'). The European Parliament still has to vote on it, and as such, Douwe Korff, professor of international law at the London Metropolitan University, and Ian Brown senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, performed a 90-page study, with a harsh conclusion: ACTA violates fundamental human rights.
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Thom_Holwerda
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2005-06-29

Due process isn't a right, it is a procedural restriction on the government to prevent it from acting arbitrarily and in conflict with the law, so that is doesn't illegally infringe on actual rights. So in other words: you don't have a right to due process, you have rights and the government cannot infringe on those rights without first following the due process of law.


Uhm, no. Due process is an inalienable right - it's in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Declaration of Human Rights, and the US Bill of Rights.

Interestingly enough, it's not part of the Dutch equivalent of the Bill of Rights (chapter 1 of our Constitution), since we consider the European Declaration of Human Rights to be conclusive in this regard. There's a lot of pushing going on to include it in our Constitution anyway.

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kittynipples Member since:
2006-08-02

The words "due process" are not even present in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Much of that document is silly anyways... universal human right to paid holidays... ha!

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