Frank William La Rue

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Frank William La Rue (2010)

Frank William La Rue (* 1952 ) was the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression and expression from 2008 to 2014 .

La Rue studied at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and in Washington at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University . He is the founder of the Center for Legal Action for Human Rights (CALDH), a Guatemalan non-governmental organization . In 2008 he took over the post of UN Special Rapporteur from Ambeyi Ligabo .

Since 2014, he has been a member of an eight-member advisory board with external experts from European countries, which Google Inc. founded in response to criticism of the implementation of the ECJ ruling of May 13, 2014 on the right to be forgotten and which the search engine operator was developing a deletion guide should advise.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression . In: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . U.N. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
  2. Biography of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression. In: www.ohchr.org. Retrieved June 9, 2015 .
  3. Droit à l'oubli: Google s'entoure de 10 experts , Le Figaro, July 11, 2014