[governance] Internet Bill of Rights - Hoping there's progress .. wishing for it to succeed.

[Robert Guerra]

Vittorio:

I'm just saying that outreach on the initiative has been, well, a bit  
lacking. Perhaps I'm wrong, and in that case - do tell me how the  
initiative has grown and started to include players such as - APC,  
Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, among many  
others.

I've tried to get people and several law schools interested - in  
fact, I brought a delegation of law students from the University of  
Toronto to the initial launch in Tunis . They were keen with the the  
idea, and wanted to contribute similar work that has been done in  
Canada.. The response, and it's been over two years - has been  
silence. At least, that is what I'm told

first a question..is there a mailing list? If not, let me suggest one  
be created so that scholars and human rights professionals can come  
together to discuss , and develop a draft that's universal

Concrete ideas - well, if there's an event, forum and/or mailing list  
- please get someone to get in touch with the following organizations  
and/or lists:

Global Human Rights Education listserv
http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/

Legal Professionals and Human Rights List
http://hrea.org/lists/hr-legal-professionals/markup/maillist.php

American Bar Association, International Human Rights Committee
http://mail.abanet.org/scripts/wa.exe?A0=INTHUMRIGHTS

International Freedom of Expression Exchange
http://www.ifex.org

(btw. i'm attending their annual meeting in a few weeks. if there's  
materials you want me to share, such as a summary of the meeting just  
held - do let me know. Happy to distribute docs and/or share details)

As well, the Human Rights Caucus has a great # of members who would  
be - delighted - to know more.

In summary, one can't just announce someone as grand as an "internet  
bill of rights" and not engage others in a pro-active fashion. There  
is great interest in this - but, to succeed as a global inititiave   
-  it has to really be the work of an active international coalition   
and not just one person or one country.

Again, if there are more people , countries and or regions involved -  
do let me know. I would just - love - to see progress and movement  
taking place in this initiative.

regards

Robert




On 25-Sep-07, at 6:07 PM, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Robert Guerra ha scritto:
>> Wolfgang:
>> To be honest, i'm a bit pessamistic about the bill of rights  
>> proposal. It was presented at WSIS/Tunis, at the IGF last year -  
>> but, not really caught on outside of a small IGF community.
>> I'm a couple of dozen of human rights and legal lists, and there  
>> is no mention of the proposal.
>> I really hate to say this - but, from my perspective it just looks  
>> like an Italian project with little or no support from the  
>> international legal and/or human rights community.
>
> As one of the people who are working on this, I would like to see  
> comments that are a bit more constructive - if you think that  
> participation is not broad enough yet (and it possibly is), you  
> could join or help spreading the word.
>
> It is a bit depressing to see that whenever some people try to roll  
> up their sleeves and work on real advances for human rights, there  
> is much more support from some governments than from fellow civil  
> society participants.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> vb.                   Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu   <--------
> -------->  finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/  <--------

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