[governance] Gender DC support for IGC statement on rights

[Lisa Horner]

Thanks Anja.
 
The Internet Rights and Principles coalition and Freedom of Expression Online coalition have also agreed to support the statement.  
 
The A2K coalition expressed interest, but I don't think they had enough time to discuss, similarly for the Privacy coalition.
 
The Protection of children online coalition raised cimilar points to the gender coalition.  Although they agree with everything in the statement, they felt it wasn't appropriate for them to sign as it doesn't explicitly mention the rights of children.
 
I think that this is something that we need to think about when drafting statements on human rights in the future.
 
All the best,
Lisa

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From: anja [mailto:anja at cis-india.org]
Sent: Tue 15/09/2009 09:47
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] Gender DC support for IGC statement on rights



Dear all,

I'm happy to let you know that the Gender DC has agreed to support the IGC
statement on rights, even though the group felt it was problematic that
such a long statement on rights did not contain any references to women's
rights. 

As was pointed out during the discussion within the group, "the Gender DC
sees women's human rights as central to the IG discourse and states have a
special duty to address women's exclusion and their rights in relation to
the Internet and freedom of expression, privacy, civic participation,
education and development, respectively".

In recognition of the importance of civil society interventions on rights,
the DC decided to endorse the IGC statement as it stands anyways, but also
expressed the hope that the above mentioned concerns will receive explicit
attention in future statements.

Best wishes,
Anja



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