[governance] Call for consensus - Statement by IGC

[Hakikur Rahman]

I support the statement. Thanks to all for their hard work and patience.

Best regards,
Hakik


At 08:45 PM 9/10/2009, Ian Peter wrote:
>Yes from me – well done
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>On 11/09/09 5:36 AM, "Willie Currie" <wcurrie at apc.org> wrote:
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>I support the statement. Many thanks to the drafters.
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>Willie
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>Lisa Horner wrote:
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>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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