[governance] IGF Workshop Invitation: Mainstreaming human rights in the work of the IGF

[Lisa Horner]

Dear all

Please find attached an invitation flyer, agenda and background notes for the IGF workshop "Mainstreaming Human Rights in the work of the IGF", scheduled for Friday 5th December (Day 3) at 11.30 in Room 5. The workshop is being organized by Global Partners and Associates and the Dynamic Coalition on an Internet Bill of Rights.  Invitation also pasted below.  I hope to see you there, and please do spread the word.

Best wishes,

Lisa
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Lisa Horner
Head of Research & Policy  Global Partners and Associates
338 City Road, London, EC1V 2PY, UK
Office: + 44 207 239 8251     Mobile: +44 7867 795859
lisa at global-partners.co.uk  www.global-partners.co.uk 

INVITATION 

Mainstreaming Human Rights in the Work of the IGF
IGF Workshop - 11.30 am, 5th December (Day 3), Room 5.

The aim of this workshop is to explore challenges and opportunities for embedding international human rights standards in the underlying norms and shared principles of internet governance.  The focus will be on strategies for mainstreaming rights standards in all internet governance policies, processes and activities.  According to this approach, rights should not be seen as a stand-alone issue within internet governance, but rather as integral to all discussions and policy processes.
 
The workshop will take the form of an inclusive discussion amongst all participants.  Rather than having formal panellists in the traditional format, we are inviting a number of stakeholders to make short, concise contributions and comments as part of an interactive debate. Discussants include representatives from the dynamic coalitions, including the coalitions on:

•	Accessibility and Disability (Gabriela Barrios)
•	Access to Knowledge (Lea Shaver)
•	Framework of Principles for the Internet (Gurumurthy Kasinathan)
•	Internet Bill of Rights (Shaila Mistry)
•	Linguistic Diversity (Viola Krebs)
•	Privacy (Ralf Bendrath)
 
The discussion will also include contributions from a range of other experts in the wider internet governance community including Peter Hellmonds (Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Nokia Siemens Networks), Miriam Sapiro (President, Summit Strategies International), Shahzad Ahmad (Bytes For All), Jan Malinowski (Head of Media and Information Society Division, Council of Europe) and Chat Garcia Ramilo (Coordinator, APC Women’s Programme).
 
The workshop will be moderated by Andrew Puddephatt, Director of Global Partners and Associates.
 
This workshop is being organised by Global Partners and Associates, in coordination with the Dynamic Coalition on an Internet Bill of Rights.  We would like to invite representatives from all stakeholder groups to contribute to the discussion, helping to identify the main challenges and opportunities for incorporating human rights standards into internet governance and to formulate practical strategies for moving forward.

This workshop will be captioned using Communication Access Realtime Translation services provided by Caption First.

For more information, please contact lisa at global-partners.co.uk

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