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

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

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On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, 5:42 am Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro, <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

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