[governance] Human Rights event at IGF

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Dear IGC members

Please pass this invitation on, and you are of course all invited.

Best

Anriette
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Leading up to the 2010 IGF, The Association for Progressive
Communications (APC), Global Partners, the Centre for Internet and
Society (CIS) and the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and
Principles are hosting, on 13 September 2010 in Vilnius, an event on:

"Internet governance and human rights: strategies and collaboration for
empowerment"

Internet governance has significant impact on human rights.  This is
reflected by the inclusion of human rights considerations in the Geneva
Declaration of Principles and the Tunis Agenda, which gave the IGF its
mandate. However, human rights discussions have not featured prominently
at the IGF. What discussions there have been tended to focus on civil
and political rights without also sufficiently considering how the
internet relates to cultural, social and economic rights. The
indivisibility of rights has not received the attention it requires.

The Internet governance and human rights communities work in
different spaces and rarely have the opportunity to interact.  The
presence of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Frank la
Rue at the 2009 IGF and again at the 2010 IGF shows that this is
beginning to change.  The 2010 IGF presents a valuable opportunity to
place human rights more firmly on the Internet governance map and to
identify opportunities for collaboration with mainstream human rights
communities.

With an increasing emphasis on the development agenda in the IGF it
is also a good opportunity to look at the links between human
rights, development and the Internet.

Join the conversation with human rights, internet governance
and development activists as we review pressing IG issues such as
access, diversity, equality, freedom, openness and development with a
view to strengthening the human rights agenda at the IGF.

Sept 13, 2010
2-5pm
Main IGF venue, Vilnius
Room to be confirmed

More concretely, we hope to:

      * continue building effective collaborations promoting human
        rights in Internet governance, and, 
      * identify appropriate spaces for intervention in the 2010 IGF.

For more information, or to confirm your participation, please contact:
Chad Lubelsky (chad at apc.org)  
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anriette esterhuysen - executive director
association for progressive communications
p o box 29755 melville - south africa 2109
anriette at apc.org - tel/fax + 27 11 726 1692
http://www.apc.org

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