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Access to Information as a Dimension of Development: Supporting and Enabling Fundamental Human Rights

Meaningful access to information – including access infrastructure, user skills, relevant content, supportive policy frameworks – helps deliver on people’s civil, economic, social and cultural rights. IFLA’s response to a recent OHCHR questionnaire highlights good practices and insights from the library field on how to maximise and deliver on this potential. Read More

News
16 March 2021
By: anonymous

IFLA Input to OHCHR: the Contribution of Development to Enjoyment of Human Rights

Sustainable development plays a key role in supporting and enabling the enjoyment of human rights. From gender equality to poverty eradication, identifying good practices and challenges, and facilitating global cooperation helps stakeholders deliver on both development and fundamental rights goals and commitments. An Office of the High… Read More

Publications
16 March 2021

IFLA Supports ICOMOS in Statement on Tigray (Ethiopia)

IFLA supports the statement by ICOMOS concerning the destruction of cultural property in Tigray (Ethiopia). Read More

News
08 March 2021
By: anonymous

Media and Information Literacy as a Reponse to Disinformation

IFLA has responded to a call for inputs, issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, about the human rights impacts of measures against disinformation. Read More

News
23 February 2021
By: anonymous

Human Rights, Internet Governance and the Global Library Field in 2021: A Look Ahead

The past year saw important developments in both the human rights and internet governance fields, with consequences for the work of libraries around the world. We look ahead to how IFLA plans to engage in the human rights and internet governance fields in 2021 – and how you can get involved! Read More

News
25 January 2021
By: anonymous

A Constant Goal in a Changing Landscape: IFLA Launches Survey on Intellectual Freedom

To mark Human Rights Day 2020, IFLA has opened a survey seeking views on intellectual freedom developments in recent years, their impact on libraries, and potential revisions to IFLA’s Statement on the subject. Read More

News
10 December 2020
By: anonymous

Libraries in Belgium Promoting and Protecting Human Rights

Over the past months, IFLA, FAIFE and our partners in different countries around the world have prepared a series of submissions to the Universal Periodic Review processes organised by the Human Rights Council. This month, we had an opportunity to take an in-depth look at how libraries in Belgium help deliver on the human rights of the communities they serve. Read More

News
23 October 2020
By: anonymous

IFLA Submission to OHCHR Call for Inputs on Children’s Privacy

Drawing on the library sector’s experiences, IFLA has prepared a response to the call for inputs launched by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ (OHCHR) Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, focusing on the privacy rights of children and issues… Read More

Publications
01 October 2020

Libraries and Children’s Right to Privacy: IFLA Submits Comments to OHCHR Call for Inputs

Libraries have a traditional and longstanding commitment to defending the privacy of their users. As institutions that come into contact with children and teens’ data in the course of their everyday work, libraries have developed good practices on how to keep this data private and confidential – and to help their young audiences develop the skills to stay safe and maintain their privacy online. Read More

News
01 October 2020
By: anonymous

Users’ Rights Cannot be Collateral Damage: IFLA Submits Comments on European Commission Guidance on Upload Filter Provisions of Copyright Directive

IFLA has submitted a response to a consultation by the European Commission on guidance to Member States on how to implement the controversial new provisions on internet platforms introduced by the 2019 Copyright Directive. In the face of efforts by rightholder organisations to wish away the protections offered for user rights – including the enjoyment of exceptions and limitations to copyright – IFLA has joined other groups working to safeguard these guarantees as part of a balanced overall regime. Read More

News
16 September 2020
By: anonymous

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