[bestbits] International civil society letter to Congress to follow up from HRC statement

[Jeremy Malcolm]

This follows on from a telephone call organised by the Web Foundation
yesterday, in which APC was asked to coordinate a civil society letter
to the US government from international organisations.  That letter
would follow on from our joint statement to the Human Rights Council,
and we would invite Human Rights Watch and Privacy International to
participate in drafting.  APC agreed to do this and suggested continuing
to use Best Bits as the coordinating coalition.

Here is the first rough draft of the text that Joy from APC and I have
begun to put together, which awaits your comments and improvements:

http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/your_name_here (sorry for the dumb URL)

Although I'm cc'ing the IRP and Web We Want lists, to avoid
fragmentation of discussions on the text like happened inadvertently
last time, can I suggest, if nobody objects, that we centralise on this
list, and that if you are not a member you can join at
http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits.  To bring in others, you
can point them towards this list too.

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*Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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