<div dir="ltr">Good. <div>Thanks for keeping this going through out the night. </div><div>Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV), Brazil signs the letter. <div><br></div><div>Deborah, just to help to concretize the list of signatures, organizations that has already signalized its support in the document:</div>
<div> <br><div style>- Global Voices Advocacy</div><div style><br></div><div style>- Bolo Bhi, Pakistan</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Deborah Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deborah@accessnow.org" target="_blank">deborah@accessnow.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>Here's a quick update on the draft statement to the Human Rights Council regarding the impact of state surveillance on human rights. The draft statement is below. We are currently reaching out to Geneva based orgs who might be able to assist with delivery (thanks Joy) and if not we can still publish it and do outreach. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Given the short timeframe, can any further edits be sent on this thread in the next 3.5 hours? Then I will post it to the Best Bits site to facilitate endorsement. In the meantime, if organizations or individuals feel comfortable endorsing this draft, please reply on this thread and we can add your name through the Best Bits system later. As a reminder, this statement would be part of a debate at the HRC that will take place at 15:00 Geneva time on Monday. Though not ideal, this was the best time frame we could come up with for facilitating input and sign on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone who worked on this over the last 12 hours and apologies for any shortcoming in the process because of time constraints. Looking forward to more input and to working together to get this finalized.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best, <br>Deborah </div><div><br></div><div><div>Agenda item 8:/General Debate/</div><div> </div><div> Civil Society Statement to the Human Rights Council on the impact of State Surveillance on Human Rights addressing the PRISM/NSA case</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you Mr. President. I speak on behalf of ______ organizations from ___ countries, across ___ regions. This is a truly global issue. We express strong concern over recent revelations of surveillance of internet and telephone communications of US and non-US nationals by the government of the United States of America. Equally concerning is the provision of access to the results of that surveillance to other governments such as the United Kingdom, and the indication of the possible complicity of some of the globally dominant US-based Internet companies whose services and reach are universally distributed. These revelations raise the appearance of, and may even suggest a blatant and systematic disregard for human rights as articulated in Articles 17 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), as well as Articles 12 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just last year the Council unanimously adopted Resolution 20/8, which "Affirms that the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of expression ..."[1] But during this session the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression reported (A/HRC/23/40) worrying new trends in state surveillance of communications with serious implications for the exercise of the human rights to privacy and to freedom of opinion and expression. The Special Rapporteur notes that inadequate and non-existent legal frameworks "create a fertile ground for arbitrary and unlawful infringements of the right to privacy in communications and, consequently, also threaten the protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression". [2]</div>
<div><br></div><div>Affirmation of internet rights and freedoms by governments in the cross regional statement on freedom of expression and the Internet is important. But civil society is extremely concerned that governments supporting this statement are not addressing, and in fact are ignoring, the recent serious revelations about mass surveillance in the PRISM/NSA case. Although the personal information disclosed under this programme is subject to the oversight of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), that court sits in secret and has no responsiblity for ensuring the human rights of those not subject to US jurisdiction.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The introduction of surveillance mechanisms into the very heart of the data streams of the globally central service providers storing and communicating the majority of the world's digital communications is a backward step for human rights in the digital age. As La Rue notes: "This raises serious concern with regard to the extra-territorial commission of human rights violations and the inability of individuals to know that they might be subject to foreign surveillance, challenge decisions with respect to foreign surveillance, or seek remedies." An immediate response is needed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We call on companies that are voluntary and involuntary parties to the violation of the fundamental rights of their users globally to immediately suspend this practice. Such action would uphold the Human Rights Council endorsed United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework of A/HRC/RES/17/4.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We call for protection of those who have made these violations public. As Mr La Rue notes, laws "must not be used to target whistleblowers ... nor should they hamper the legitimate oversight of government action by citizens." We urge States protect those whistleblowers involved in this case and to support their efforts to combat violations of the fundamental human rights of all global citizens. Whistleblowers play a critical role in promoting transparency and upholding the human rights of all. </div>
<div> </div><div>This recent case is a new kind of human rights violation specifically relevant to the Internet and one foreshadowed in the Council's 2012 Expert Panel on Freedom of Expression and the Internet. We therefore call on the Human Rights Council to act swiftly to prevent creation of a global Internet based surveillance system. One action the Council could take would be to follow up the Expert Panel by convening a multistakeholder process to support the recommendation of Mr. La Rue that the Human Rights Committee develop a new General Comment on the right to privacy in light of technological advancements </div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/G12/153/25/PDF/G1215325.pdf?OpenElement" target="_blank">http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/G12/153/25/PDF/G1215325.pdf?OpenElement</a></div>
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<br></div><div>[2] <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>ENDS</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="im"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Gene Kimmelman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:genekimmelman@gmail.com" target="_blank">genekimmelman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I'm glad to see everyone diving in on this. I have only one overarching issue to raise concerning the framing of whatever groups decide to put out: I believe it would be most powerful to challenge both the US Gvt. and companies to explain how what they have done does NOT constitute human rights violations, with specific details to explain their stance. I believe all the language people are suggesting can fit within this framing, and put the burden on others to show how our concerns are not justified. This has more to do with long-term diplomatic impact that anything else; the debate will continue and many of the facts will probably never be made public -- but I think it is a strategic advantage for civil society to always be calling for transparency and basing its conclusions on both what facts are presented, and what concerns are not addressed by the presentation of convincing arguments/facts.<br>
<div><div><div><div>On Jun 9, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div>On 10/06/2013, at 12:47 AM, Deborah Brown <<a href="mailto:deborah@accessnow.org" target="_blank">deborah@accessnow.org</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>In any case, we could still work on a statement to be released around this discussion, or later in the HRC session, which ends this week. Jeremy, have you had the chance to work on an outline? If not, I'm happy to help start the drafting process. My main concern is whether we have enough time for significant participation from a diversity of groups so that this is coming from a global coalition. </div>
</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Would it be OK if we copy it from the pad to a sign-on statement on <a href="http://bestbits.net/" target="_blank">bestbits.net</a> 5 hours before the hearing? Those who are working on the pad can pre-endorse it there. If 5 hours ahead is not enough, then I'll need to instruct someone else on how to do it earlier, because I'll be in the air until then.</div>
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