UN urges privacy standards
The high human rights commission of the UN, called yesterday (9/9) for countries to adopt standards for protecting the privacy of citizens, but the press and media continue, intentionally or not, mingling with the dispute security Governments .
Pillay, however is clear, the violation of communication involving citizens of the world are a “a dramatic intrusion” of national security, ie, it is made precisely in the name of “security” that serves the interests of militaristic and imperial.
The request was made in the opening 24. Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, where Pillay cited a series of human rights violations recorded in the world, especially the Middle East.
On Syria, the UN High Commissioner urged that there be a “readily tradable”, opposed to foreign military intervention and the continued supply of arms to the warring parties, remember also the worsening crises in Iraq, Bahrain, and Turkey Palestine.