Dear all,
I wanted to write a
quick email to introduce myself and my colleague, Motoko Aizawa from the
Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB). We are very pleased to be
working with Niels on a follow up to Article 19's June 2015 paper on
ICANN's corporate social responsibility to respect human rights.
In 2013, IHRB developed the ICT Sector Guide on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights for the European Commission, together with the organisation Shift.
We intend to draw on this work as a starting point and explore ways it can be applied to help ICANN navigate its responsibility to respect human rights.
We
will be looking specifically at how ICANN can develop human rights
impact assessments for policy development and approaches towards an
ICANN CSR report, including a transparency report, as outlined in the UN
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This paper will be
presented at ICANN54 in Dublin in October.
We are currently mapping existing examples of HRIA's, CSR reports and transparency reports that could be helpful for ICANN to apply to its policy development and operations. We aim to provide possible options and recommendations, which will assist with the development of human rights due diligence.
I'm afraid I can't
make the call on Monday, but Motoko will join and listen in if that's
OK. And if we can reach out to you with some questions, solicit opinions
and test some ideas over the coming weeks, that would be great too.
Many thanks, looking forward to working with you all. Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.
