February 2017 - cc-humanrights

[Feedback period till 17 Feb] February 2017 Draft : Economic, Social, Cultural Rights at ICANN
by Vidushi Marda March 1, 2017

March 1, 2017

Dear Colleagues, Hope this email finds you all well. Here is the second draft of the report on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at ICANN: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bexABsbetOsP2nPubhxqE3cas6UbuXJiapAend…. It is significantly reworked from the last draft. Many thanks to James, Rafik, Deborah and Tatiana for their excellent insight and comments, I have resolved all comments on the draft except those that I think will require a little more discussion/analysis. I'd like to set the feedback period for this version from 7th February - 17th February. Curious to hear your thoughts and look forward to discussing this further. Warmly, Vidushi

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Nokia revamps human rights policy pledging to avoid "active surveillance"
by Vidushi Marda Feb. 14, 2017

Feb. 14, 2017

Dear Colleagues, This may be of interest: https://business-humanrights.org/en/nokia-revamps-human-rights-policy-pledg… Best wishes, Vidushi

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Blog Post on Webinar
by Niels ten Oever Feb. 2, 2017

Feb. 2, 2017

Hi all, Lee Hibbard produced a nice blogpost about the webinar we co-organized with CCWP HR, ARTICLE 19 and the CoE. Best, Niels Blog ICANN webinar : Community consensus on the need for change regarding community-based new Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) 18 January 2017 Organised by ARTICLE 19, the Council of Europe, and the Cross Community Working Party on ICANNs Corporate and Social Responsibility to Respect Human Rights Further information including the agenda and slide presentations can be found here: http://icannhumanrights.net The Council of Europe report on Applications to ICANN for Community-based new Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) – Opportunities and challenges from a human rights perspective was presented. Its authors, Eve Solomon and Kinanya Pijl, raised concerns regarding the policies and procedures for community objections (i.e. inconsistency in who has standing to object, opaque decision making) and community priority evaluations (i.e. uncertainty in appealing the decisions of the Economic Intelligence Unit). Chris Disspain, ICANN Board member considered it to be a valuable source of information and reference for ICANN as it moves forward, especially for the work of the GNSO on new gTLD Subsequent Procedures. Mark Carvell, Vice-Chair elect to the GAC, emphasized the importance of generic top-level domains as a means for communities to exercise their freedom of expression and to assemble and associate. The perspective of human rights helps to restore the vision and purpose of communities in the ICANN process. Mark Carvell continued by stating that the Council of Europe report should be considered in the development of the next round of gTLDs. Concerns were expressed about the treatment of community applications in the ICANN process. Cherine Chalaby, ICANN Board member, underlined the need for an adequate rationale in dealing with all community applicants. Avri Doria, Co-chair to the GNSO working group on subsequent gTLD procedures, considered the pre-screening of community applicants. ICANN’s accountability to communities, which are part of the multi-stakeholder Internet community, necessitates dialogue between ICANN staff and applicants. The desire to provide feedback was underlined by Constantine Roussos. In summary, it was generally agreed that ICANN’s policies and procedures should be as clear, fair, reasonable and transparent as possible in order to reduce inconsistency, increase predictability, ensure due process, eliminate discrimination and deter potential gaming. Patrick Penninckx, Council of Europe, welcomed the discussions and underlined that his Organisation stands ready to continue the dialogue in ICANN58. -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 2458 0B70 5C4A FD8A 9488 643A 0ED8 3F3A 468A C8B3

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