[governance] Fwd: [igf_members] Proposal: Human Rights Roundtable

[parminder]

Dear Izumi/ All

I suggest that we request the organiser of the human rights round table to

(1) include social, economic and cultural rights in the background note 
and the discussions (if specific instances of such rights are needed we 
can mention, right to access/use the Internet, net neutrality - or the 
right to have the information, communication or content contributed by 
any one to the Internet equally as any other, linguistic and other 
cultural rights vis a vis the domain name system and so on). Also 
mention indivisibility of human rights as the WSIS documents do.

(2) Not to foreground consumer rights in a human rights write up. 
Preferably not to mention it al all, for consumer rights are not human 
rights. Certainly not in UN usage.

Thanks and best, parminder

On Friday 19 October 2012 06:16 AM, Izumi AIZU wrote:
> Dear Parminder and all,
>
> I thought it is worth asking the list if we support this round table in general.
>
> Whether consumer rights be part of Human right or not is of course important,
> and worth a debate.
>
> While the organizer will have their position, I think we, IGC do not
> have to make a single position on this issue for support or not. As we
> know, there are different
> situations/contexts on consumer right issues around the globe, as well as access
> to Internet and other Internet issues, I think it is worth to have
> such round table
> and discuss in depth, rather than making one position beforehand.
>
> best,
>
> izumi
>
> 2012/10/18 parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>:
>> Dear Izumi,
>>
>> As you know I have submitted a detailed comment on this proposal to the MAG
>> list which I will presently forward. I havent got any response from the
>> organisers, which I still hope will come. I think we should wait for their
>> response before we can form a view on it. However, if you support the idea
>> whether any clarification is provided on my comments
>> or not, you can make the case for that here.
>>
>> Best regards, parminder
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 18 October 2012 06:50 AM, Izumi AIZU wrote:
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> APC has proposed this and I think IGC should support this.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>>
>> izumi
>>
>>

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