Dear all, Great to see the discussion developing here. If I look at the questions brought up by Farzane, structured by Paul (and confirmed by Tijani), I see some overlap with the questions that were brought up in the draft FoI we've been working on as Google Doc.
* What substance we see in the phrase human rights inside ICANN Mission?
For this question we had a preliminary answer, namely that we could understand the following documents as 'Internationally recognized human rights': UDHR: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=eng ICCPR: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx ICESCR: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CESCR.aspx ICERD: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CERD.aspx CEDAW: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CEDAW.aspx CRPD: http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml DRIPS: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/Pages/Declaration.aspx This could help narrow down that part of the discussion. When we look at the second question and clarification by John:
* When, if ever, ICANN should give that substance (whatever it may be) effect?
This might mean different things for: - the ICANN community (SOs and ACs) - ICANN the organization - Contracted parties - policy development process It might helps us to differentiate or list what the different relevant activities of these (or other) parts of the ICANN ecosystem and understand what (potential) human rights impacts they might have? Just a suggestions. Best, Niels -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9