[governance] IGC Submissions to UN Human Rights Council Feb 2020

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" (via governance Mailing List]

I hear you Ian but the reason I initiated the draft was specifically for
Huan Qi and have included.

If a general statement is to be drafted, there is nothing stopping 2
statements but wanted to highlight Huang Qi's case.

On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, 5:47 am ian.peter at ianpeter.com, <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sala,
>
> I like this as a way forward, and note that on the draft of the other
> proposed submission to Chinese government you have just included:
>
> (1) The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) is deeply concerned
> by global trends of governments to abuse the "national security" exception
> to trample on basic freedoms of expression particularly when these freedoms
> are fundamentally linked to good governance and keeping governments
> accountable.
>
> (2) From Venezuela's treatment of Luis Carlos Diaz and numerous other
> journalists, United States of America's treatment of Edward Snowden and
> Julian Assange, France's mistreatment of Taha Bouhafs, a reporter at French
> news website *Là-bas Si J'y Suis, *allegedly assaulted whilst filming a
> protest of undocumented workers and now the recent sentencing of Chinese
> webmaster and human rights activist Huang Qi to 12 years in prison for
> allegedly leaking state secrets when he was promoting accountability and
> transparency and good governance.
>
> This is I think the beginnings of a good submission. To finalise it:
>
> 1. I think we need a comprehensive list of all the journalists and
> activists in all countries who have been imprisoned or punished for using
> the Internet to express basic freedom of expression issues which should be
> a basic human right, not a grounds for imprisonment. There are quite a few
> more names we can add,  and I am sure people on this list can make
> suggestions.
>
> 2. We need to forcefully express the human rights obligations of
> governments to not use excuses such as national security to undermine basic
> freedom of expression. I know there are people here who can express this
> better than I can, but a strong statement in support of basic human rights
> for on line activists - with a comprehensive list of individuals and
> countries who have denied them these rights - would be a great thing to do,
> and I would be happy to work with others on such a statement.
>
> I suggest we drop the Huan Qi draft right now, and instead work on a more
> comprehensive and inclusive statement as outlined and also suggested by
> Norbert.
>
> Ian
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
> To: "governance" <governance at lists.riseup.net>
> Sent: 5/08/2019 10:49:16 AM
> Subject: [governance] IGC Submissions to UN Human Rights Council Feb 2020
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The recent discussions on the drafting of Huan Qi which caused some to
> raise the need to raise the geopolitical violations naturally within that
> statement, got me to thinking that perhaps we should consider drafting a
> separate submission for the UN Human Rights Council meeting scheduled to
> take place in February, 2020.
>
> Given that we are free to make submissions pertaining to those Human
> rights concerns related to the internet, it may be worthwhile considering
> making a general submission with a wider focus. This is inspired by
> Norbert's suggestion of expanding focus of the Huan Qi statement which I
> think we should keep separate but I defer to the wider community. The oral
> submissions would probably be a 3 to 5 min intervention from the floor.
>
> If this is something of interest, then we can work towards it.
>
> Sala
>
>
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