Digital Justice Network

Neo-liberal globalization is the keyword explaining the current global political and economic system. Its policies and orders, implemented through multinational as well as bilateral or regional trade agreements, deterioratepublic interest and deprive the people of their rights to access to public service in the name of Free trade. FTA aims to promote privatization and commercialization of essential services such as health care, education, culture, electricity, water, and every aspects of life. As a result, it restricts access to medicine and threatens food security and safe environment.

한미FTA반대! 국제NGO공동성명

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발 신 : 이하 연명단체
수 신 : 각 언론사 사회부, 보건의료 및 지적재산권 담당기자
제 목 : [한국&국제NGO 공동성명] 전세계 민중 건강권의 장애물이 되는 한미FTA 반대한다
날 짜 : 2006. 6. 22
문 의 :
– 김정우 (정보공유연대 IPLeft, 진보네트워크센터 / 02-717-9551)
– 변혜진 (건강권실현을위한보건의료단체연합 / 02-3675-1987)
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1. 안녕하십니까?

2. 신자유주의라는 이름아래 전지구적으로 진행이 되고 있는 다자간, 양자간 자유무역협정(FTA)는 국민들의 의약품에 대한 접근권을 파괴하고, 보건의료체계를 상업화와 사유화와 함께 공공정책을 제한할 것입니다.

발신 : 공공의약센터, 정보공유연대 IPLeft, 진보네트워크센터 외 연명단체 및 개인
날짜 : 2006.3.28
제목 : 한국-미국 시민사회단체, 한미 FTA 보건의료분야 USTR 의견서 제출
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1. 안녕하세요.

2. USTR(美 무역대표부)는 지난 3월 24일(미국 현지일자)까지 한-미 FTA와 관련한 의견서를 받았습니다.

3. 이에 정보공유연대 IPLeft와 진보네트워크센터를 포함한 국내 시민사회단체들과 Health Global Access Project 등 미국 NGO들은 양국 진보세력의 반대 의지를 모아 아래와 같은 한-미FTA 보건의료와 지적재산권 분야 협상에 관한 반대의견서를 작성하여 3월 24일 USTR측에 전달했습니다.

4. 많은 관심과 보도 부탁드립니다.

[첨부문서]
1. 한미FTA 보건의료와 지적재산권 분야에 관한 한국과 미국 NGO

발신 : 정보공유연대 IPLeft, 진보네트워크센터 외 연명단체 및 개인
날짜 : 2006.3.28
제목 : 한국-미국 시민사회단체, 한미 FTA 저작권 부문 USTR 의견서 제출

1. 안녕하세요.

2. 금번 한-미 FTA에서는 지적재산권 부문 또한 주요 협상의제가 될 것으로 예상되고 있습니다.

3. 특히 한-미 FTA 저작권 관련 협상은 50년에서 70년으로의 저작권 보호기간 연장, 기술적 보호조치 회피에 대한 제재 강화 요구, 일시적 복제 개념의 명시 요구, 저작권 침해행위에 대한 법집행 강화 요구 등 미국의 거대 문화산업들이 자신의 이익을 보장하고 극대화하기 위해 저작물에 대한 강력한 보호를 통해 저작권자들의 권리만을 일방적으로 강화하는 방향으로 진행될 것으로 예상됩니다.

4. 만일 한-미 FTA에서 위의 저작권 관련 조항들이 통과된다면, 우리 국민들이 마땅히 누려야 할 문화향유의 권리를 축소시키고 표현의 자유 및 프라이버시를 침해할 우려가 있습니다. 또한 국내의

We strongly oppose the inclusion of the copyright clause in the current FTA negotiation between Korea and the United States.

We can not approve the prior action to initiate the Korea-US FTA negotation.

On July 1, 2004, the Korean Progressive Network ‘Jinbonet’ held an open conference entitled ‘Tasks and Perspectives of Privacy Impact Assessment’ at the assembly hall of National Human Rights Commission of Korea. The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is about the institutionalization of the process to protect individual privacy.

Civil society organizations maintain that the privacy protection act should be established under the supervision of an independent body which can deal with both the public and private sectors.

The Ministry of Information and Communication and also the Ministry of Culture and Tourism have provided an arbitration proposal regarding the expanded use of mobile phones which now includes playing music from MP3 files. The free MP3 files are played with an MP3 player facility on the phones (MP3 phones) and have now become a social issue. As it stands now, the proposal made by the government seriously violates the right of users and should be immediately withdrawn. Furthermore, any counterproposal must be revised to provide assurance of users’ rights.

On April 7, 2004, Police Headquarter announced the commencement of a project regarding the search for missing children involving the collection of DNA. Samples of children’s DNA who are presently under the care of protection facilities throughout the country and parents with missing children would be used to establish the DNA Database.

On April 7, 2004, Police Headquarter announced the commencement of a project regarding the search for missing children involving the collection of DNA. Samples of children’s DNA who are presently under the care of protection facilities throughout the country and parents with missing children would be used to establish the DNA Database.

On January 4, 2004, the Youth Protection Committee announced a decision to remove homosexuality from the individual assessment list of harmful materials to youth. This list included materials describing bestiality, or other motivating socially unacceptable sexual activity including orgy, incest, homosexual love, masochism, sadism, and prostitution.

The Internet Real Name Law, which was passed at the plenary session of Parliament on March 9, 2004, requires Internet media and press websites to verify all names and identification numbers of authors who post messages on bulletin boards or chat rooms regarding elections.

The Intellectual Property Right is not merely a possession of copyright holders. Intellectual products would be meaningless if there were no users to enjoy them. It must be recognized that the fundamental aim of the Intellectual Property Right regime is to strengthen the consensus and exchange between the authors and users.

Struggle for Access to Glivec
in South Korea
Solidarity Needed Now!!!

What is Glivec?
US FDA approved Glivec, a drug for the
treatment of chronic myelogenic leukemia
(CML), in May 2001. In fact, Glivec is the one
and only drug that is effective for refractory
CML patients. But it is still ‘not a drug of
hope, but a drug of despair’ in South Korea.

Struggle for Access to Glivec
in South Korea
Solidarity Needed Now!!!

Yesterday more than thousand mainly teachers and their supporters, like students organized in Da-hamkke (All Together), took the streets of Seoul to protest against the government’s plans to implement NEIS

좀전에 보낸 시민사회 선언문과 별도로, 어제 발표된 정부간 선언문(안)의
보안(security) 분야에 대한 진보네트워크센터의 입장을 발표했습니다.

2003년 7월 18일
WSIS intersessional Paris 참가단

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Korea Progressive Network ‘Jinbonet’

Statement on paragraphs 34-37 of the new Draft Declaration of Principles
Document WSIS03/PICP/DT/4(Rev.2)-E

Civil Society Information Security and Privacy Working Group submitted a
Statement on the new Draft of Principles on 17. July. We appreciate the
endeavor of the Working Group a

아래와 같은 한국 시민사회의 WSIS에 대한 선언문을
WSIS intersessional 회의장에 배포했습니다.

2003년 7월 18일
WSIS intersessional Paris 참가단

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Statement of Korean Civil Society Network for WSIS

This statement has been prepared after diverse issues regarding
information society were reviewed and discussed at Korean civil society
workshop for the world summit on the information society (WSIS), and
contains the common consensus of Korean civil societies to information
socie