Quick proposal for a session at ICANN 69

Stephanie E Perrin stephanie.perrin at MAIL.UTORONTO.CA
Thu Aug 13 23:02:34 EEST 2020


I am not hearing anything, so sending it in now.  IF you have comments, 
let me know, and I will try to get the changes made before it goes out 
to all the SGs for comments.

cheers Stephanie

On 2020-08-13 10:01 p.m., Stephanie E Perrin wrote:
>
> Here is a quick proposal for the session on HR at ICANN 69.  I have 
> not been on the CCWG-HR, so if some of you who are could take a look 
> at it prior to 21:59 PDT and provide your comments/edits, I would be 
> most grateful.  Copied below for your convenience, although I have 
> been unable to improve the type size.  I will be sending it at 22:00 PDT.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Stephanie Perrin
>
> Group/Affiliation NCSG
>
> Contact Name Stephanie Perrin (on behalf of NCSG members of the HR 
> Working Party)
>
> Proposed Session Title Moving forward with WS2:Implementing the Human 
> Rights Impact Assessment
>
> Brief Description The cross community working party on human rights 
> has been working on the Human Rights Impact Assessment framework 
> (HRIA) for some time.While ICANN has accepted Human Rights as a core 
> value, we do need to actually have tools to implement this core 
> value.The HRIA is an accepted tool to interpret impacts on Human 
> Rights, but it is not well understood across the community.A plenary 
> session to discuss how these tools are used, and the work of the 
> committee, would be useful to engage the community in this core value 
> and the methodologies of measurement of implementation.
>
> Rationale/Desired Outcomes
>
> The goal would be to raise awareness of the community of the fact that 
> we have a commitment to uphold human rights, and enhance understanding 
> of what that means in practice, within the limited remit of ICANN. It 
> might also stimulate discussion on workstream 2 initiatives.
>
> Session Format A balanced discussion with a panel of members of the 
> committee, representing differing SGs and ACs.We would invite a 
> speaker who had implemented an HRIA, to discuss the process and the 
> results.
>
> Session Leaders/Facilitators
>
> Chair and other members of the CCWG-HR have already volunteered, we 
> would seek differing viewpoints.
>
> Community InterestThere is a great deal of interest in human rights 
> across the community, from a variety of perspectives.Given the 
> reliance of the European Courts on the Charter of Fundamental Rights 
> of the European Union in interpreting the GDPR, and the focus of ICANN 
> in recent years on EPDP, it would be useful to provide further 
> information on the practical implementation of human rights values, 
> pursuant to ICANN’s adoption of it as a core value.
>
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