Pakistan Statement to Human Rights Council on Surveillance Programs

During the 24th session of the Human Rights Council in September 2013, the government of Pakistan – supported by Ecuador, Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Russia, Indonesia, Bolivia, Iran, and China – made a statement a that expressly linked the revelations about surveillance programs, the need for a new international governance framework, and the clear failure of the Internet Governance Forum to deliver on “its desired results.” But blaming US government surveillance practices on a failure of multistakeholder Internet governance is fallacious and misleading.