[governance] Human Rights event at IGF

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Our apology to the Giganet people. We realise we will clash with part of
your event. There was just no other option - Anriette

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 16:48 +0200, Anriette Esterhuysen wrote:
> Dear IGC members
> 
> Please pass this invitation on, and you are of course all invited.
> 
> Best
> 
> Anriette
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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
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