<div>Greetings - and - </div>
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<div>Just a short note thanking everyone for emphasizing this work and the inspiring contexts where it arose.</div>
<div>I too was at the Tunis 'launch' (fair description?) and would like to be in the groups, when a list is gathered, and also wish to express appreciation for the excellent list of resources here shared.</div>
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<div>Very best wishes and *Respectfully Interfacing,* LDMF.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Guerra</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@privaterra.info">lists@privaterra.info</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Vittorio:<br><br>I'm just saying that outreach on the initiative has been, well, a bit<br>lacking. Perhaps I'm wrong, and in that case - do tell me how the
<br>initiative has grown and started to include players such as - APC,<br>Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, among many<br>others.<br><br>I've tried to get people and several law schools interested - in
<br>fact, I brought a delegation of law students from the University of<br>Toronto to the initial launch in Tunis . They were keen with the the<br>idea, and wanted to contribute similar work that has been done in<br>Canada.. The response, and it's been over two years - has been
<br>silence. At least, that is what I'm told<br><br>first a question..is there a mailing list? If not, let me suggest one<br>be created so that scholars and human rights professionals can come<br>together to discuss , and develop a draft that's universal
<br><br>Concrete ideas - well, if there's an event, forum and/or mailing list<br>- please get someone to get in touch with the following organizations<br>and/or lists:<br><br>Global Human Rights Education listserv<br>
<a href="http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/">http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/</a><br><br>Legal Professionals and Human Rights List<br><a href="http://hrea.org/lists/hr-legal-professionals/markup/maillist.php">
http://hrea.org/lists/hr-legal-professionals/markup/maillist.php</a><br><br>American Bar Association, International Human Rights Committee<br><a href="http://mail.abanet.org/scripts/wa.exe?A0=INTHUMRIGHTS">http://mail.abanet.org/scripts/wa.exe?A0=INTHUMRIGHTS
</a><br><br>International Freedom of Expression Exchange<br><a href="http://www.ifex.org">http://www.ifex.org</a><br><br>(btw. i'm attending their annual meeting in a few weeks. if there's<br>materials you want me to share, such as a summary of the meeting just
<br>held - do let me know. Happy to distribute docs and/or share details)<br><br>As well, the Human Rights Caucus has a great # of members who would<br>be - delighted - to know more.<br><br>In summary, one can't just announce someone as grand as an "internet
<br>bill of rights" and not engage others in a pro-active fashion. There<br>is great interest in this - but, to succeed as a global inititiave<br>- it has to really be the work of an active international coalition<br>
and not just one person or one country.<br><br>Again, if there are more people , countries and or regions involved -<br>do let me know. I would just - love - to see progress and movement<br>taking place in this initiative.
<br><br>regards<br><br>Robert<br><br><br><br><br>On 25-Sep-07, at 6:07 PM, Vittorio Bertola wrote:<br><br>> Robert Guerra ha scritto:<br>>> Wolfgang:<br>>> To be honest, i'm a bit pessamistic about the bill of rights
<br>>> proposal. It was presented at WSIS/Tunis, at the IGF last year -<br>>> but, not really caught on outside of a small IGF community.<br>>> I'm a couple of dozen of human rights and legal lists, and there
<br>>> is no mention of the proposal.<br>>> I really hate to say this - but, from my perspective it just looks<br>>> like an Italian project with little or no support from the<br>>> international legal and/or human rights community.
<br>><br>> As one of the people who are working on this, I would like to see<br>> comments that are a bit more constructive - if you think that<br>> participation is not broad enough yet (and it possibly is), you
<br>> could join or help spreading the word.<br>><br>> It is a bit depressing to see that whenever some people try to roll<br>> up their sleeves and work on real advances for human rights, there<br>> is much more support from some governments than from fellow civil
<br>> society participants.<br>><br>> Regards,<br>> --<br>> vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <--------<br>> --------> finally with a new website at <a href="http://bertola.eu/">
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