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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I believe that realizing human
rights is the essential first step to building just societies. When people are
empowered to pursue their own destinies and have a voice in shaping solutions
to problems they experience, they are better equipped to overcome poverty, live
with dignity and transform the lives of others.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Millions of people are suffering
enormously at the hands of states, while governments are shamelessly painting
the protection of human rights as a threat to security, law and order or
national ‘values.'"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">There is an insidious and creeping
trend undermining human rights which has come from governments deliberately
attacking, under funding or neglecting institutions that have been set up to
help protect our rights.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Not only are our rights under
threat, so are the laws and the system that protect them. More than 70 years of
hard work and human progress lies at risk,”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The United Nations’ human rights
bodies, the International Criminal Court, and regional mechanisms such as the
Council of Europe and the Inter American Human Rights system, are being
undermined by governments attempting to evade oversight of their domestic
records.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As I speak Amnesty international has
stated in their 2015 – 2016 report that<b> </b> governments are
 broken international law in their national contexts: more than 98 states
tortured or otherwise ill-treated people and 30 or more illegally forced people
to do things against their will where they would be in danger. In at least 18
countries, war crimes or other violations of the “laws of war” were committed
by governments or armed groups.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Amnesty International has warn of a
worrying trend among governments increasingly targeting and attacking
activists, lawyers and others who work to defend human rights and we are not
excluded from this</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Instead of recognizing the crucial
role these people play in society, many governments have deliberately set out
to strangle criticism in their country. They broken their own laws in their
crackdowns against citizens,” </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">My question now is:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">1.</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">  
</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Is there any charter of human right
and principles for the internet?   If yes to what extent has it
influence human right policies on the internet. and if no is there any plans from
ICANN to lead the process of bringing to the attention of the international bodies
responsible for human right issues in relation to the internet from our part of
the world (THE INTERNET)?<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><br><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">WISDOM DONKOR<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ICANN 55 FELLOW/ COACH </span></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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