[governance] Human Rights in ICANN

[Marilia Maciel]

Hello everyone,

A few ICANN meetings ago, a Working Party on ICANN and Human Rights has
been formed. This is a lose group of coordination with the participation of
several ICANN constituencies to discuss the impact that some of ICANN's
policies and procedures have on human rights, such as freedom of
expression, privacy, freedom of association and due process, among others.

There are several policy development processes to be started soon on new
gTLDs, WHOIS, etc that will have significant implications on Human Rights.
This group is both trying to intervene substantially in these policies so
they comply with human rights standards and also to introduce the adequate
procedures to ensure that Human Rights assessments take place in due time.

We are currently in Dublin for the 54th ICANN meeting. A summary of
sessions that will touch upon human rights or that are related to the topic
can be found here: bit.ly/1LSIbvQ <http://t.co/yJvbSnrcqT>

All session count on remote participation:
https://meetings.icann.org/en/dublin54/schedule-full

Several documents of interest have been produced so far by the Council of
Europe, Article 19, and much work has been developed with the input from
various members of this list.

http://www.coe.int/t/informationsociety/Source/DGI_2014_12E%20Report%20ICANN%20and%20Human%20Rights%20updated%208%20Oct%202014.pdf
https://www.article19.org/data/files/medialibrary/38003/ICANN_report_A5-for-webv2.pdf
https://www.article19.org/data/files/medialibrary/38148/ICANN_CS_to_respect_HR_report_ALL_FINAL-PDF.pdf
(recently published)

This message is a quick update on what is taking place in this front and
also a call for those who wish to be involved. There are loads of work
coming down the pipe and it would be very important to have more civil
society and people with a human rights and public interest mindset to help.

Best wishes,
Marília



-- 
*Marília Maciel*
Pesquisadora Gestora - Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - FGV Direito Rio
Researcher and Coordinator - Center for Technology & Society - FGV Law
School
http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts

DiploFoundation associate - www.diplomacy.edu
PoliTICs Magazine Advisory Committee - http://www.politics.org.br/
Subscribe "Digital Rights: Latin America & the Caribbean" -
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