[governance] Call for consensus - Statement by IGC supportingrights and principles

[Meryem Marzouki]

Hi,

I support the statement. Thanks all for your patience!
Best,
Meryem

Le 10/9/2009, "Lisa Horner" <lisa at global-partners.co.uk> a écrit:

>Hi all
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>We're now past the deadline for comments, so I've pasted a final version
>below for the consensus call.  Please could you send a message to the
>list to say if you support the statement or not.  I'll now hand over to
>Ginger and Ian to finalise and coordinate it getting read out at the IGF
>planning meeting.  I'll also get in touch with the DCs.
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>Shaila - this version includes your edits, apart from in the final para
>as I think Parminder's comments made sense.  Hope that's acceptable to
>you.
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>Thanks everyone for your inputs.  I think it's a strong statement now.
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>All the best,
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>Lisa
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>FINAL STATEMENT (V6) - for consensus call
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>The Caucus [and undersigned DCs] repeat their request that the programme
>for IGF-4 in Egypt gives greater priority to human rights.  The WSIS
>Declaration and Tunis Agenda strongly reaffirmed the centrality of human
>rights in the information society. Despite this, human rights and
>associated principles have received too little attention at the IGF so
>far. This is problematic because :
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>*    Fundamental human rights such as the rights to freedom of
>expression, privacy, civic participation, education and development are
>strongly threatened by the actions and restrictive policies of a growing
>number of actors vis a vis the internet, including state and private
>actors at both national as well as global levels.
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>*    The internet presents new opportunities for upholding and advancing
>human rights, for example through enhancing access to knowledge and
>common resources. It is vital that we build on and enhance these
>opportunities. Ignoring these avenues to uphold human rights implies a
>serious opportunity cost for the well being of peoples, globally.
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>*    International human rights, as contained in the Universal
>Declaration of Human Rights and confirmed by the core human rights
>treaties and other universal human rights instruments, are legally
>binding.  The growing role of information and communication technologies
>has not changed the legal obligation of states that have ratified these
>instruments to respect, protect and implement the human rights of their
>citizens.
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>*    The human rights framework is an internationally agreed set of
>standards that has practical as well as ethical value.  It balances
>different rights against each other to preserve individual and public
>interest.  In addition to its legally binding implications, human rights
>are therefore a useful tool for addressing internet governance issues,
>such as how to deal with security concerns on the internet in compliance
>with the rights to freedom of expression and privacy.  Besides stating
>the obligations of states and governments, the human rights framework
>also allows us to derive the rights and responsibilities of other
>stakeholders.  
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>The Internet Governance Caucus [and undersigned DCs] call for the human
>rights dimension of all internet governance issues to be included in the
>planning and implementation of all future IGF sessions, so that human
>rights are given the attention they deserve as cross-cutting issues.
>This should include explicit consideration of how global, regional and
>national policies affect human rights, and the development of positive
>policy principles to build an open and accessible internet for all.  The
>Caucus [and undersigned DCs] would like to offer assistance to the
>organisers of the main plenary sessions to do this, and would like to
>support all stakeholders through providing access to relevant guidelines
>and experts. We see this upcoming IGF in Egypt and future IGFs as
>renewed opportunity to make Rights and Principles a core theme.
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