Thank you Lawrence.

Maybe I can explain this in a better way. It was the council decision to approve the human rights implementation recommendations of
ccoic. So it was a formal council decision.
As a general matter of process, I believe the council leadership is in a better position to approve a suggestion for a LinkedIn post coming from a council member. I will wait for the leadership to decide on this. 


Best regards 


Farzaneh 


On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM Lawrence O. Olawale-Roberts <lawrence@microboss.org> wrote:
Dear Farzaneh,

Thanks for the clarification you provided and my sincere apologies on having to wait this long to get a response to your last mail. I do appreciate your interest in helping to curate content for our LinkedIn page and encourage that you kindly help keep at it.


It was the decision of Council at the second to the last SPS that only formal positions adopted by council should be promoted as content on our LinkedIn page. The topic of human rights and freedom of expression is definitely an important one but would need to move from the CCOICI's remit to the full council for a position to be adopted before we consider promoting it over our social media handle as our official position. 

May I use this opportunity to solicit more submissions to serve as content for our page on LinkedIn but ensure they are positions that have been voted on. A follow-up mail on what to expect on our LinkedIn page would follow shortly.

Warm regards.

Lawrence Olawale-Roberts

Global President & GMD, MicroBoss.

ICANN GNSO Councilor.                        

Email: Lawrence@microboss.org

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Sent: Monday, January 27, 2025 10:52 PM
To: Lawrence O. Olawale-Roberts <lawrence@microboss.org>
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Subject: Re: [council] Re: A suggested LinkedIn post for GNSO Comms
 
Dear Lawrence,
I am sorry if I was not clear. We did not adopt a resolution on human rights during SPS. Human rights has been a topic of discussion and policies at ICANN for over a decade, starting from freedom of expression. 
For tracking ICANN and its community's work on human rights (and the incorporation of human rights in ICANN bylaws) you can refer to this page: https://community.icann.org/display/ICWOHR/The%2BICANN%2BCommunity%27s%2BWork%2Bon%2BHuman%2BRights?
I suggested during the SPS meeting to mention a few of the resolutions that the council voted on and the general public cares about. During our conversations Manju mentioned CCOICI's work and the human rights checklist for PDPs. GNSO council approved the recommendation related to a human rights check-list for the PDPs, I believe in 2023. So I thought it would be a good idea to tell the public that we care about human rights and we have a human rights checklist for the PDPs. 

P.S. Anne, I call the PR team the Comms team. It has a nicer ring to it. 

Farzaneh 


On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM Lawrence O. Olawale-Roberts via council <council@icann.org> wrote:
Dear All,

Thanks for the prompt, Anne. My thoughts on reviewing the mail was to research if there was a council resolution at the SPS adopting a stance on human rights, but since Greg communicated that leadership would advise, that further helps as the response would clarity.

My thoughts are that only adopted council positions or programs that have major consensus may be easily adapted to the GNSO council page on LinkedIn to avoid any backlash from other constituencies within the GNSO. 

Lawrence 

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Thanks all.  I am waiting for Lawrence to weigh in as he was appointed by Council as the PR Officer.  Am I mixing up two different roles?
Anne

Anne Aikman-Scalese
GNSO Councilor
NomCom Non-Voting 2022-2026


On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM DiBiase, Gregory via council <council@icann.org> wrote:

Hi Farzaneh,

 

Thanks for kicking this off!

 

Leadership will review with the Comms team. We also welcome feedback from the rest of Council.

 

Thanks,

Greg

 

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Hello GNSO Councillors and Comms team. 

 

I mentioned this already during our strategy meeting and wanted to raise it here on the mailing list: I wanted to suggest doing a LinkedIn post about the important human rights check-list that CCOICI suggested in 2023 to be included during each PDP and council approved it. 

 

Your LinkedIn post can read as:

 

At the GNSO (ICANN), we care about human rights during policy development and we help ICANN and its community to respect human rights. In 2023, we approved a recommendation by a Council group which supported building a lightweight mechanism throughout the different stages of policy development to facilitate the consideration of the possible impact of our policies on Human Rights! A human rights check-list on its way for all new Policy Development Processes. Stay tuned!   

 

Page 45, 

 

And then maybe a screenshot of this section? 

 

 

The CCOICI supports building in a lightweight mechanism throughout the different stages of the GNSO PDP to facilitate the consideration of the possible impact on human rights. Such a mechanism could consist of a check-list of questions that help guide staff support as well as community members involved in the PDP or other GNSO policy processes to identify whether there is an expected impact on human rights which could in turn trigger further focus on this topic. Example questions for such a check-list are: 1) Is there a likely human rights impact, 2) who are the groups expected to be impacted, 3) what is the expected severity of the impact (high / medium / low). The CCOICI wants to emphasize that even if an impact is anticipated, it does not mean that work cannot proceed, it just means that further attention will need to be paid to this issue through questions such as: 1) is the proposed action necessary, 2) is the proposed action proportionate, 3) is the proposed action legitimate.




Farzaneh 

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