[governance] Re: [igf_members] Proposal: Human Rights Roundtable

Izumi AIZU iza at anr.org
Sat Oct 20 09:37:56 EDT 2012


Any views or comments?

Izumi

2012年10月20日土曜日 parminder parminder at itforchange.net:

>  Dear Izumi/ All
>
> I suggest that we request the organiser of the human rights round table to
>
> (1) include social, economic and cultural rights in the background note
> and the discussions (if specific instances of such rights are needed we can
> mention, right to access/use the Internet, net neutrality - or the right to
> have the information, communication or content contributed by any one to
> the Internet equally as any other, linguistic and other cultural rights vis
> a vis the domain name system and so on). Also mention indivisibility of
> human rights as the WSIS documents do.
>
> (2) Not to foreground consumer rights in a human rights write up.
> Preferably not to mention it al all, for consumer rights are not human
> rights. Certainly not in UN usage.
>
> Thanks and best, parminder
>
>  On Friday 19 October 2012 06:16 AM, Izumi AIZU wrote:
>
> Dear Parminder and all,
>
> I thought it is worth asking the list if we support this round table in general.
>
> Whether consumer rights be part of Human right or not is of course important,
> and worth a debate.
>
> While the organizer will have their position, I think we, IGC do not
> have to make a single position on this issue for support or not. As we
> know, there are different
> situations/contexts on consumer right issues around the globe, as well as access
> to Internet and other Internet issues, I think it is worth to have
> such round table
> and discuss in depth, rather than making one position beforehand.
>
> best,
>
> izumi
>
> 2012/10/18 parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'parminder at itforchange.net');>:
>
>  Dear Izumi,
>
> As you know I have submitted a detailed comment on this proposal to the MAG
> list which I will presently forward. I havent got any response from the
> organisers, which I still hope will come. I think we should wait for their
> response before we can form a view on it. However, if you support the idea
> whether any clarification is provided on my comments
> or not, you can make the case for that here.
>
> Best regards, parminder
>
>
> On Thursday 18 October 2012 06:50 AM, Izumi AIZU wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> APC has proposed this and I think IGC should support this.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> izumi
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
                     >> Izumi Aizu <<
Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo
Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
Japan
www.anr.org
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