[governance] Re: Draft IGC Statement [Azerbaijan and Human Rights]

Sun Jul 8 08:08:33 EDT 2012

Great job!
Just to make a small correction.
The name of my organisation is I-VISSION INTERNATIONAl not International I-VISSION.
I know the email shows International I-VISSION. It was a technical error made when creating the account.

Thanks for your understanding
Regards,

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 De : Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org>
À : Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> 
Cc : governance at lists.igcaucus.org; coordinators at igcaucus.org 
Envoyé le : Dimanche 8 juillet 2012 3h53
Objet : [governance] Re: Draft IGC Statement [Azerbaijan and Human Rights]

Many thanks, Sala, for your work below.

The web-link has been changed to the following URl due to some technical problem.
http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/archives/73 

Please use this for making your comments and suggestions.

thanks,

izumi

2012/7/8 Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>

Dear All,
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>Following AYEs from Sonigitu Ekpe,  Louis Pouzin, Divina Meigs, Ronald Koven, Narine Kachatryan, Wolfgang Benedek, Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Christopher Wilkinson, Mathias Ketteman, Gorka Orueta, International lvssion, Jean-Louis Fullsack, Ginger Paque, Shaila Mistry, Izumi Aizu and no NAYs, I have composed a first Draft Statement which is on the IGC site.
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>The Draft Statement is available for your comments and edits via http://www.igcaucus.org/digressit/?p=61  This will mean that you can comment on each sentence and paragraph specifically and see others comments as well for ease of drafting. We will be using the Statement Workspace to gather feedback etc. Looking forward to your comments and input.
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>The Draft Statement reads as follows:-
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>The Civil Society Internet
Governance Caucus wishes to express its grave concern over the reports[1] of violation
of human rights of civil society in Azerbaijan.
>We note that the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of
Europe, Thomas Hammarberg had in September 2011 (CommDH(2011)33) made a series
of observations and recommendations[2] such as the
need to strengthen and protect Human Rights in Azerbaijan which included things
like decriminalizing defamation, allowing civil society to operate without
restrictions, the arrests of journalists and those with differing political
perspectives. We affirm these recommendations.
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>Whilst Azerbaijan is a non member state of the United Nations
Human Rights Council, it was encouraging to note the commitment made by the
Government of Azerbaijan on the 29 June 2012 at the 20th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva
vide A/HRC/20/L.13[3]where together with
71 countries it made a bold affirmation of commitment to the protection of
freedoms of expression through any media of one’s choice.
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>This is good progress however we would like to urge the Government
of Azerbaijan to encourage the creation of a safe and free environment where
diverse and conflicting views on issues can be raised where ideas are robustly
teased out without resorting to violence and abuse.
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>We are also concerned that there is a danger to hide behind the
exceptions provided for in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (ICCPR) and we would like to urge the Government of
Azerbaijan to remember the spirit of the preamble within the ICCPR in which
Article 19 is to be interpreted which includes peace and freedom.
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>We would also like to call upon the Government of Azerbaijan to
review its legislations, policies and practices to ensure that freedom of
expression, freedom of association, and freedom of peaceful assembly is
encouraged as these are fundamental elements of a stable and democratic
society.
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>Ends
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>[1] http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/world-report-2012-azerbaijan
>[2] https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1839497
>[3] http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G12/147/10/PDF/G1214710.pdf?OpenElement
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>Kind Regards,
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>Sala
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>On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:37 AM, shaila mistry <shailam at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Aye
>>Shaila 
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>>________________________________
>> From:  Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org>; 
>>To:  <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>; Ginger Paque <ginger at paque.net>; 
>>Cc:  <salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>; 
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>>Subject:  Re: [governance] news from Baku 
>>Sent:  Sun, Jul 1, 2012 12:26:07 AM 
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>>Aye, and Sala would you please prepare the draft?
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>>izumi
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