[CCWG-ACCT] What are the WS2 activities that ensue from a WS1 bylaws commitment to human rights?
Malcolm Hutty
malcolm at linx.net
Fri Jul 31 09:05:35 UTC 2015
On 31/07/2015 09:11, Avri Doria wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In order to outline some of the work that would need to be done in WS2,
> given a WS1 bylaws commitment to human rights, e.g. Drazek as ammended
> by Lisse
>
> /Within its mission and in its operations, ICANN will be committed to respect the fundamental human rights, inter alia, the exercise of free expression and the free flow of information./
>
> I have extracted the following text from
>
> * Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
> <http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf>
> <http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf>*
>
That doesn't look like a multistakeholder document to me. It seems to
have set out responsibilities for businesses without involving
businesses in its formulation. So, valuable input as a reference point,
but is it something we would simply accept as an unimpeachable statement
applicable to this community?
> 13. The responsibility to respect human rights requires that business
> enterprises:
[...]
> (b) Seek to prevent or mitigate adverse human rights impacts that
> are directly linked to their operations, products or services by
> their business relationships, even if they have not contributed to
> those impacts.
As this applies to ICANN, do you think this creates a duty to use its
business relationships with Registries and Registrars seek to prevent
human rights abuses by domain registrants?
I think it could be argued that that is what the quoted text means, and
I would disagree strongly with accepting it without qualification for
that reason.
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