[bestbits] Internet rights @ HRC29

[Stephanie Perrin]

Thanks for this, the agenda does seem packed!  I wanted to draw to your 
attention, an important proceeding that is taking place at ICANN, and is 
an important Internet governance issue.  A working group on the 
accreditation of privacy proxy services, which many endangered groups 
and political/social dissidents use to protect their identities from 
disclosure on WHOIS, has been meeting for a year and a half.  The report 
is up for comments until July 7.  The civil society groups who have been 
actively trying to protect these services from any requirements that 
would price them out of existence, or make many organizations ineligible 
to use them, would appreciate the support of human rights groups 
everywhere.  There are two easy ways to do this:

*Briefing Paper*

The first is a briefing paper prepared by 3 members of the 
Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group,  to give an overview of some of the 
issues and concerns that we feel are still present and need some further 
work. You can find our briefing attached and we welcome and feedback, 
suggestions or comments.

*Savedomainprivacy.org*

A website has also been setup by a number of other stakeholders in this 
process at www.savedomainprivacy.org <http://www.savedomainprivacy.org>. 
Members of the public and interested parties can sign onto a petition to 
protect the ability of registrants to keep their personal information 
private.

I would urge everyone to have a look at both pieces of info and please 
feel free to contact me or any of the other authors if you or your 
organization want further information or to help you submit your own 
comments during the Public Comments period which will be ending on July 
7^th 2015.



On 2015-06-16 6:04, Deborah Brown wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The 29th session of the Human Rights Council opened yesterday, and APC
> and Access have put together a brief on the internet rights issues that
> will come up. It's a busy session with the presentation of the report of
> the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression on encryption and
> anonymity, the appointment of the new SR on privacy, and more.
>
> https://www.apc.org/en/news/human-rights-council-hrc29-what-stake-internet-rig
>
> If anyone is in Geneva and able to come to the HRC, there a few events
> of interest (in the brief).
>
> Kind regards,
> Deborah
>
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