[PC-NCSG] Consensus call on NCSG comments on the COE report Human Rights and ICANN

[joy]

Hi - I endorse the document
Thanks also for the comments - I certainly agree that ICANN is not a
human rights standards making body, but that is must take account of
human rights in making policies.
Joy

On 26/09/2014 4:45 a.m., Dorothy K. Gordon wrote:
> Well said, we cannot work without ensuring we respect these fundamental charters.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Avri Doria" <avri at acm.org>
> To: pc-ncsg at ipjustice.org
> Sent: Thursday, 25 September, 2014 4:50:12 PM GMT +00:00 Casablanca / Monrovia
> Subject: Re: [PC-NCSG] Consensus call on NCSG comments on the COE report Human Rights and ICANN
>
> Hi,
>
> I think the point is to have some way to advise on the human rights
> impact of the things we decide and do.
>
> Of course ICANN should not be making human rights policy, but is MUST
> makes its policies in accordance to human rights requirements.  And to
> do that it needs to understand these requirements and have some process
> in the ICANN structure for making sure they are alwasy adequately
> considered.
>
> avri
>
>
> On 25-Sep-14 11:19, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
>> I don't think anybody would trust ICANN to take the lead on human rights
>> issues, all we are looking for is compliance with generally accepted
>> public policy principles.  WE have a long way to go in that regard, in
>> my view.  I do share your concern about the grab...but at the moment, on
>> the privacy front, we are still fighting off a "risk-based approach" to
>> privacy.  This has been what ICANN appears to have been practising for
>> quite some time...
>> Stephanie
>> On 14-09-25 10:23 AM, Sam Lanfranco wrote:
>>> I too endorse the comment, cleaned up with the proposed wording
>>> changes highlighted in the
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1swluHqQOEC4RZSO38if3qpBlfCDIqXjoaChoYYmrBfo/
>>> version.
>>>
>>> I would note in passing that the issue of human rights and the
>>> Internet is gaining increased attention on the agendas of a number of
>>> international and multilateral organizations. That is good but will
>>> also call for increased vigilance here since there is likely to be a
>>> "land grab" as significant players try to take control of the process,
>>> in order to take credit for what is arrived at.
>>>
>>> In my view ICANN is not the organization to take the lead in framing
>>> something for the Internet like the Universal Declaration of Human
>>> Rights (UNHDR), which in that case was passed by the UN. What ICANN
>>> can do, within its remit, is champion and become a best-in-class
>>> organization incorporating the human rights issues into its policies
>>> and practices. Doing so would be to ICANN's credit and give it a
>>> strong seat at any venue where the broader framing of Internet rights
>>> and human rights is taking place. It is my view that this is the
>>> strategy ICANN should initiate earlier rather than later.
>>>
>>> Sam L.
>>>
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