Human Rights Monitoring Institute in cooperation with the University of Lucerne School of Law and Mykolas Romeris University organized a workshop for public officials, law practitioners, journalists, NGO representatives, junior scholars and doctoral students on the 27th-28th November 2007.
The Workshop was moderated by prof. Alexander H.E. Morawa, S.J.D. (University of Lucerne), prof. Martina Caroni, LL.M. (University of Lucerne), and Dr. Karyn Kenny, Esq. (United States Supreme Court Fellow) at the premises of Human Rights Monitoring Institute.
24 selected participants of the workshop examined how two fundamental rights – freedom of expression and right to privacy - are interrelated. While both are at the core of the modern bill of rights and are constituent elements of the various international treaties on human rights as well as any democratic constitution, they do not always complement each other and evoke certain conflicts, e.g. when one’s private conduct becomes the subject of public scrutiny under the laws pertaining to public safety, health or child welfare.
The following topics were considered:
• The Relationship of the Right to Privacy and Free Expression in General
• The Balancing of the Rights in Case of a Clash of Lifestyle Choices, in Particular Sexual Behavior
• The Question of Child Pornography and the States‘ „Margin of Apprecciation“ when Combating It.
The most active discussion followed presentations by moderators and the participants of the workshop shared many valuable ideas in regard to the presented topics.
The workshop was supported by the Swiss Baltic Net programme of the Gebert Ruf Foundation.
See the detailed programme of the workshop here.
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